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| Titel |
Interaction of dense dense shelf water cascading and open-sea convection in the Northwestern Mediterranean during winter 2012. |
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Xavier Durrieu de Madron, Loïc Houpert, Pere Puig, Anna Sanchez-Vidal, Pierre Testor, Anthony Bosse, Claude Estournel, Samuel Somot, François Bourrin, Marie-Noelle Bouin, Anthony Calafat, Miquel Canals, Laurent Coppola, Fabrizio D'Ortenzio, Jordi Font, Serge Heussner, Jacobo Martin, Laurent Mortier, Albert Palanques, Patrick Raimbault |
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EGU General Assembly 2013
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Englisch
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In: GRA - Volume 15 (2013) |
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250081910
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| Zusammenfassung |
| 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. Multi-platforms observations enabled, with an unprecedented resolution, 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 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 observations highlight the role of intense episodes of both dense shelf water cascading and open-sea convection to the alteration of the characteristics of the NW Mediterranean deep waters. |
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