Spreading of the Western Mediterranean Deep Water after winter 2005: Time scales and deep cyclone transport

Journal of Geophysical Research: Oceans

Volumn 117, Issue 7, 2012, Pages

  Beuvier, J ^a,b,c   Beranger K ^b   Brossier, C Lebeaupin ^b,c,d   Somot, S ^c   Sevault, F ^c   Drillet, Y ^a   Bourdalle Badie R ^a   Ferry, N ^a   Lyard, F ^e  

^a MERCATOR OCÉAN   (France)

^b ENSTA PARISTECH   (France)

^c CENTRE NATIONAL DE RECHERCHES MÉTÉOROLOGIQUES   (France)

^d ECOLE POLYTECHNIQUE   (France)

^e CNRS   (France)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

LAGRANGE MULTIPLIERS;

AIR SEA FLUX; CYCLONIC EDDY; DEEP CONVECTION; DEEP CYCLONES; DEEP WATER; DENSE WATERS; EULERIAN; FORMATION RATES; GULF OF LION; HIGH RESOLUTION; INTERANNUAL; LAGRANGIAN APPROACHES; MEDITERRANEAN SEA; MODEL CONFIGURATION; OCEAN GENERAL CIRCULATION MODELS; SARDINIA; SATELLITE OBSERVATIONS; STRAIT OF GIBRALTAR; THERMOHALINE; TIME-SCALES; TRANSPORT TIME; WESTERN MEDITERRANEAN;

STORMS;

AIR-SEA INTERACTION; CYCLONE; DEEP WATER; DENSE WATER; EDDY; EULERIAN ANALYSIS; LAGRANGIAN ANALYSIS; OCEANIC CONVECTION; OCEANIC GENERAL CIRCULATION MODEL; STRAIT; THERMOHALINE CIRCULATION; TIMESCALE; WINTER;

GULF OF LION; MEDITERRANEAN SEA; MEDITERRANEAN SEA (WEST); SARDINIA CHANNEL; STRAIT OF GIBRALTAR;

EID: 84864625513     PISSN: None     EISSN: 21699291     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2011JC     Document Type: Article

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