For studying the intraseaonal sea surface temperature anomalies in the Mediterranean Sea COADS data were used, which are anlayzed in terms of characteristics specific to separate seasons of the year, Amethod of local Lyapunov coefficients calculated from the changes of the SST anomalies during one-month time intervals was applied. It was found that the coefficients change during a year in such a manner, that maximal values occur in the spring and autumn. That means that SST anomalies are growing in these periods of a year and are decaying in the intermediate intervals. The spatial distributions of the growing and decaying anomalies with relation to the annual cycle of SST in the Mediterranean Sea are discussed.
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