Thick bottom nepheloid layers in the western Mediterranean generated by deep dense shelf water cascading

Progress in Oceanography

Volumn 111, Issue , 2013, Pages 1-23

  Puig, Pere ^a   Madron, Xavier Durrieu de ^b   Salat, Jordi ^a   Schroeder, Katrin ^c   Martín, Jacobo ^a   Karageorgis, Aristomenis P ^d   Palanques, Albert ^a   Roullier, François ^e   Lopez Jurado, José Luis ^f   Emelianov, Mikhail ^a   Moutin, Thierry ^g   Houpert, Loïc ^b  

^a INSTITUT DE CIÈNCIES DEL MAR   (Spain)

^b IFREMER   (France)

^c CNR   (Italy)

^d INSTITUTE OF OCEANOGRAPHY   (Greece)

^e LABORATOIRE D OCÉANOGRAPHIE DE VILLEFRANCHE   (France)

^f Centro Oceanográfico de Baleares   (Spain)

^g STATION MARINE D ENDOUME   (France)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BIMODAL GRAIN-SIZE DISTRIBUTION; BIOGEOCHEMICAL CYCLE; DENSE SHELF-WATER CASCADING; NORTHWESTERN MEDITERRANEAN; SUSPENDED PARTICULATE MATTERS; SUSPENDED SEDIMENT CONCENTRATIONS; WESTERN MEDITERRANEAN; WESTERN MEDITERRANEAN BASIN;

GRAIN SIZE AND SHAPE; PARTICLE SIZE ANALYSIS; STREAM FLOW; TURBIDITY;

OFFSHORE OIL WELLS;

BIOGEOCHEMICAL CYCLE; COASTAL SEDIMENT; CONTINENTAL SHELF; DEEP WATER; DEEP WATER FORMATION; DENSE WATER; HYDRODYNAMICS; MEDITERRANEAN WATER; NEPHELOID LAYER; OPEN OCEAN; RESUSPENSION; SIZE DISTRIBUTION; SUSPENDED PARTICULATE MATTER; SUSPENDED SEDIMENT; THERMOHALINE STRUCTURE;

GULF OF LION; MEDITERRANEAN SEA; MEDITERRANEAN SEA (WEST);

EID: 84875814186     PISSN: 00796611     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.pocean.2012.10.003     Document Type: Article

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