Abrupt cooling of the Mediterranean Levantine Intermediate Water at the beginning of the 1980s: Observational evidence and model simulation

From: Journal of Physical Oceanography | Date: August 1, 2001| Author: | Copyright information

ABSTRACT

The Levantine Intermediate Water (LIW) is an important water mass for the overall hydrology of the Mediterranean Sea and there are open questions connected with the possible long-term variability of its physical characteristics. This paper is dedicated to the analysis and the interpretation of the LIW long-term variations over the last 50 years. It is based on data analysis and model simulations. On the one hand, new temperature and salinity gridded data of interannual and decadal anomalies have been produced from existing historical datasets. On the other hand, a long-term ...

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