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JOURNAL OF GEOPHYSICAL RESEARCH-OCEANS
Volume 122, Issue 12, Pages 10091-10098Publisher
AMER GEOPHYSICAL UNION
DOI: 10.1002/2016JC012679
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- European Union [MAS3-CT96-0051]
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Direct observations of the deep water circulation in the western Mediterranean Sea are presented, based on the analysis of autonomous profiling floats drifting at 1,200 and 1,900 m depth during the 1997-2002 period. The amount of water circulating in the basin is quantified, revealing several distinct gyres and boundary currents. It was also possible to follow the spreading of the newly formed Western Mediterranean Deep Water (nWMDW) and Tyrrhenian Deep Water (TDW), two main components of the deep water in the western Mediterranean, from their origin, based on their temperature and salinity signature. Both boundary currents and isolated eddies carrying the water into the interior are important for this.
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