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OCEAN SCIENCE
卷 6, 期 2, 页码 573-586出版社
COPERNICUS GESELLSCHAFT MBH
DOI: 10.5194/os-6-573-2010
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- NOC, Southampton
- NERC Strategic Research Division
- National Marine Facilities Division
- NERC [2025, NE/B505911/1]
- Natural Environment Research Council [NE/B505911/1, noc010010, noc010005] Funding Source: researchfish
- NERC [noc010010, noc010005] Funding Source: UKRI
We study the variability of hydrographic preconditioning defined as the heat and salt contents in the Ligurian Sea before convection. The stratification is found to reach a maximum in the intermediate layer in December, whose causes and consequences for the interannual variability of convection are investigated. Further study of the interannual variability and correlation tests between the properties of the deep water formed and the winter surface fluxes support the description of convection as a process that transfers the heat and salt contents from the top and intermediate layers to the deep layer. A proxy for the rate of transfer is given by the final convective mixed layer depth, that is shown to depend equally on the surface fluxes and on the preconditioning. In particular, it is found that deep convection in winter 2004-2005 would have happened even with normal winter conditions, due to low pre-winter stratification.
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