Dense shelf water cascading in the northwestern Mediterranean during the cold winter 2005: Quantification of the export through the Gulf of Lion and the Catalan margin

Geophysical Research Letters

Volumn 35, Issue 7, 2008, Pages

  Ulses, C ^a,b   Estournel, C ^a   Puig, P ^c   Durrieu de Madron, X ^d   Marsaleix, P ^a  

^a UNIVERSITÉ DE TOULOUSE   (France)

^b NETHERLANDS INSTITUTE OF ECOLOGY NIOO KNAW   (Netherlands)

^c INSTITUT DE CIÈNCIES DEL MAR   (Spain)

^d UNIVERSITÉ DE PERPIGNAN   (France)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER INTEGRATED MANUFACTURING; ECOLOGY;

BENTHIC ECOSYSTEMS; COLD WINTERS; DEEP BASIN; DENSE SHELF WATER; DENSE WATERS; GULF OF LIONS; INTENSE (CO); NORTHWESTERN MEDITERRANEAN SEA; NUMERICAL MODELLING;

MINE FLOODING;

DENSE WATER; NUMERICAL MODEL; OCEANIC CURRENT; SEA SURFACE TEMPERATURE; SHELF DYNAMICS;

BALEARIC SEA; BLANES BAY; CAP DE CREUS; CATALAN SEA; CATALONIA; EURASIA; EUROPE; GERONA [CATALONIA]; GULF OF LION; MEDITERRANEAN SEA; PALAMOS CANYON; SOUTHERN EUROPE; SPAIN;

EID: 45549102103     PISSN: 00948276     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2008GL033257     Document Type: Article

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