Summer in Europe means time for the beach. Testing the waters is a traditional holiday ritual: a swift hand or foot in the surf to check sea temperature. Or there is the modern approach -- a flotilla ...

Some satellites carry instruments that provide measurements of the surface temperature of oceans and seas – like a thermometer in the sky. Scientists met recently to review data from new satellite ...

The Mediterranean looks better in the dark – at least in the view of an ESA-led effort to use satellites to take the daily temperature of Europe’s seas. A switch to data acquired at night is one of ...