Sea Surface Temperature and Air-Sea Interaction in the Mediterranean Region: Direct measurements, satellite estimates and model based assessments

Salvatore Marullo1,2, Alcide di Sarra3, Vincenzo Artale4, Marco Bellacicco5, Jaime Pitarch6, Damiano Sferlazzo7, Chunxue Yang8, Giandomenico Pace9 and Rosalia Santoleri8, (1)ENEA, Centro Ricerca Frascati, Frascati, Italy, (2)CNR, Institute of Marine Sciences, Rome, Italy, (3)Agenzia nazionale per le nuove tecnologie, l’energia e lo sviluppo economico sostenibile (ENEA), Roma, Italy, (4)Enea Cr Casaccia, S. Maria Di Galeria, Italy, (5)ENEA National Agency for New Technologies, Energy and Sustainable Economic Development, Frascati, Italy, (6)Royal Netherlands Institute for Sea Research and Utrecht University, Department of Coastal Systems, Texel, Netherlands, (7)ENEA, Lampedusa, Italy, (8)CNR Institute for Marine Science, Rome, Italy, (9)ENEA National Agency for New Technologies, Energy and Sustainable Economic Development, Rome, Italy