Survey	Start Date	End Date	Site	Depth (m)			SST (°C)			Chl‐a (mg/m3)
				Min	Max	Mean ± SD	Min	Max	Mean ± SD	Min	Max	Mean ± SD
Autumn 2017	4/05/2017	9/05/2017	CR	48.1	57.6	53.2 ± 2.02	27.8	27.9	27.9 ± 0.03	0.42	0.47	0.46 ± 0.02
			WN	48.9	55.2	52.4 ± 1.64	27.9	28.0	28 ± 0.02	0.36	0.49	0.4 ± 0.04
Autumn 2018	19/04/2018	26/04/2018	CR	47.3	56.7	53 ± 2.5	30.5	30.6	30.6 ± 0.07	0.15	0.17	0.17 ± 0.01
			CS	53.1	56.7	54.8 ± 0.78	30.5	30.7	30.6 ± 0.1	0.16	0.19	0.19 ± 0.01
			WN	50.3	55.7	52.5 ± 1.39	30.4	30.6	30.5 ± 0.07	0.17	0.19	0.19 ± 0.01
Autumn 2019	25/04/2019	30/04/2019	CS	53.0	55.0	54.1 ± 0.63	28.6	28.6	28.7 ± 0.01	0.69	0.79	0.75 ± 0.04
			WN	50.0	55.0	52.9 ± 1.31	28.4	28.6	28.5 ± 0.04	0.75	0.96	0.89 ± 0.06
Spring 2017	28/09/2017	4/10/2017	CR	43.1	56.6	52.7 ± 2.99	24.9	25.0	25 ± 0.04	0.61	0.66	0.64 ± 0.02
			WN	49.3	57.5	52.4 ± 1.39	24.8	24.9	24.9 ± 0.02	0.38	0.42	0.41 ± 0.01
Spring 2018	3/09/2018	19/09/2018	CS	53.3	57.2	55.3 ± 1.19	23.7	23.8	23.8 ± 0.02	0.30	0.31	0.31 ± 0.01
			WN	50.2	56.7	52.7 ± 1.5	23.5	23.5	23.6 ± 0.02	0.21	0.23	0.23 ± 0.01
Spring 2019	7/09/2019	11/09/2019	CR	43.0	56.0	52.6 ± 2.99	23.2	23.3	23.3 ± 0.03	0.23	0.25	0.24 ± 0.01
			WN	50.0	54.0	52.3 ± 1.17	23.2	23.3	23.3 ± 0.03	0.23	0.34	0.26 ± 0.04