Interaction of dense shelf water cascading and open-sea convection in the northwestern Mediterranean during winter 2012
| Autor: | Laurent Mortier, Samuel Somot, Denis Dausse, Laurent Béguery, Marie-Noëlle Bouin, Albert Palanques, François Bourrin, M. Beauverger, Fabrizio D'Ortenzio, H. Le Goff, Dominique Lefèvre, Anna Sanchez-Vidal, Miquel Canals, A. Calafat, X. Durrieu de Madron, Pere Puig, Christophe Cassou, Laurent Coppola, Jacobo Martín, Serge Heussner, Claude Estournel, S. Kunesch, Pierre Testor, Jordi Font, Anthony Bosse, Loïc Houpert, Patrick Raimbault |
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| Rok vydání: | 2013 |
| Předmět: |
0106 biological sciences
Mediterranean climate Convection geography geography.geographical_feature_category 010504 meteorology & atmospheric sciences Continental shelf 010604 marine biology & hydrobiology 01 natural sciences Mediterranean Basin Geophysics Mediterranean sea Oceanography 13. Climate action Open sea Formation water General Earth and Planetary Sciences 14. Life underwater Basin scale Geology 0105 earth and related environmental sciences |
| Zdroj: | Geophysical Research Letters. 40:1379-1385 |
| ISSN: | 0094-8276 |
| DOI: | 10.1002/grl.50331 |
| Popis: | The winter of 2012 experienced peculiar atmospheric conditions that triggered a massive formation of dense water on the continental shelf and in the deep basin of the Gulf of Lions. Multiplatforms observations enabled a synoptic view of dense water formation and spreading at basin scale. Five months after its formation, the dense water of coastal origin created a distinct bottom layer up to a few hundreds of meters thick over the central part of the NW Mediterranean basin, which was overlaid by a layer of newly formed deep water produced by open-sea convection. These new observations highlight the role of intense episodes of both dense shelf water cascading and open-sea convection to the progressive modification of the NW Mediterranean deep waters. |
| Databáze: | OpenAIRE |
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