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JOURNAL OF GEOPHYSICAL RESEARCH-OCEANS
卷 120, 期 9, 页码 6309-6328出版社
AMER GEOPHYSICAL UNION
DOI: 10.1002/2014JC010674
关键词
Mediterranean outflow; Strait of Gibraltar; ADCP data; boundary layer
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资金
- Spanish Government [REN2003_01608, CTM2006_02326/MAR, CTM2010_21229-C02-01/MAR, CTM2009-05810-E/MAR, CTM2013-40886-P]
- CIESM
- Junta de Andalucia [RNM1540]
More than 10 year of Acoustic Doppler Current Profiler observations collected at the westernmost sill (Espartel sill) of the Strait of Gibraltar by a monitoring station have been carefully processed to provide the most updated estimation of the Mediterranean outflow. A comprehensive quality control of the factors affecting the uncertainty of the measurements has been carried out and great care has been paid to infer the current at the bottom layer, where direct observations are lacking. The mean outflow in the southern channel of the sill section has been estimated as -0.82 Sv (1 Sv=1 x 10(6) m(3) s(-1)), with an average contribution of the eddy fluxes of -0.04 Sv. This figure is an overestimation, as the mooring measurements, assumed valid for the whole section, ignore the lateral friction. On the other hand, it only gives the flow through the southern channel and disregards the fraction flowing through shallower northern part. Both drawbacks have been addressed by investigating the cross-strait structure of the outflow from hindcasts produced by the MITgcm numerical model, run in a high-resolution domain covering the Gulf of Cadiz and Alboran Sea basins. An overall rectifying factor of 1.039 was found satisfactory to correct the first estimate, so that the final mean outflow computed from this data set is -0.85 Sv, complemented with an uncertainty of 0.03 Sv based on the interannual variability of the series. The temporal analysis of the series shows an outflow seasonality of around the 8% of the mean value, with maximum outflow in early spring.
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