Water masses exchanged through the Channel of Sicily: Evidence for the presence of new water masses on the Tunisian side of the channel

Deep-Sea Research Part I: Oceanographic Research Papers

Volumn 63, Issue , 2012, Pages 65-81

  Ben Ismail, Sana ^a   Sammari, Chérif ^a   Gasparini, Gian Pietro ^b   Béranger, Karine ^c   Brahim, Mouldi ^a   Aleya, Lotfi ^d  

^a INSTITUT NATIONAL DES SCIENCES ET TECHNOLOGIES DE LA MER   (Tunisia)

^b CNR   (Italy)

^c IMSIA UMR CNRS 9219 EdF   (France)

^d UNIVERSITÉ DE FRANCHE COMTÉ   (France)

Author keywords

Atlantic Tunisian Current; Channel of Sicily; Geostrophic transport; Mediterranean; Mesoscale variability

Indexed keywords

ATLANTIC WATER; CHANNEL OF SICILY; DIRECT CURRENT MEASUREMENT; GEOSTROPHIC CURRENTS; GEOSTROPHIC TRANSPORT; HIGH-RESOLUTION NUMERICAL SIMULATION; LEVANTINE INTERMEDIATE WATERS; MEDITERRANEAN; MESOSCALE ACTIVITY; MESOSCALE VARIABILITY; NORMALIZED TEMPERATURE; SHELF CIRCULATION; STANDARD DEVIATION; TEMPORAL VARIABILITY; TRANSITIONAL LAYERS; TUNISIAN COAST; WATER MASS;

HYDROGRAPHIC SURVEYS; OCEAN CURRENTS;

OCEAN HABITATS;

DATA ACQUISITION; GEOSTROPHIC FLOW; HYDROGRAPHY; INTERMEDIATE WATER; MESOSCALE MOTION; NUMERICAL MODEL; OCEANIC CIRCULATION; OCEANIC CURRENT; SALINITY; TEMPERATURE PROFILE; TEMPORAL VARIATION; WATER EXCHANGE; WATER MASS;

CAPE BON; LEVANTINE SEA; MEDITERRANEAN SEA; NABEUL; STRAIT OF SICILY; TUNISIA; TUNISIAN SHELF;

EID: 84857017466     PISSN: 09670637     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.dsr.2011.12.009     Document Type: Article

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