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GEOPHYSICAL RESEARCH LETTERS
卷 44, 期 11, 页码 5665-5672出版社
AMER GEOPHYSICAL UNION
DOI: 10.1002/2017GL072615
关键词
temperature trend; salinity trend; Mediterranean outflow; Strait of Gibraltar; Western Mediterranean Deep Water
资金
- Spanish Government [REN2003-01608, CTM2006-02326, CTM2009-05810/MAR, CTM2010-21229-C02-01/MAR]
- CIESM
- Junta de Andalucia [RNM1540]
- [CTM2013-40886P]
Temperature and salinity series near the seafloor at Espartel Sill (Strait of Gibraltar) have been used to analyze the thermohaline variability of the Mediterranean outflow. The series shows temperature drops by the end of most winters/early springs, which are the remote response to Western Mediterranean Deep Water (WMDW) formation events in the Gulf of Lion that uplift old WMDW nearby the strait. This process distorts the seasonal cycle of colder/warmer water flowing out in summer/winter likely linked to the seasonality of the Western Alboran Gyre. The series shows positive trends in agreement with previous values, which are largely increased after 2013. It is tentatively interpreted as the Western Mediterranean Transition (WMT) signature that started with the very cold winters of 2005 and 2006. It was only after the large new WMDW production of 2012 and 2013 harsh winters that WMT waters were made available to flow out of the Mediterranean Sea.
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