Evaluation of regional ocean circulation models for the Mediterranean Sea at the Strait of Gibraltar: volume transport and thermohaline properties of the outflow

Climate Dynamics

Volumn 44, Issue 5-6, 2015, Pages 1277-1292

  Soto Navarro, Javier ^a   Somot, Samuel ^b   Sevault, Florence ^b   Beuvier, Jonathan ^b,c   Criado Aldeanueva, Francisco ^a   García Lafuente, Jesús ^a   Béranger, Karine ^d  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MÁLAGA   (Spain)

^b CENTRE NATIONAL DE RECHERCHES MÉTÉOROLOGIQUES   (France)

^c MERCATOR OCÉAN   (France)

^d ENSTA PARISTECH   (France)

Author keywords

Mediterranean climate; Mediterranean outflow; Mediterranean Sea; Mediterranean waters; Ocean regional circulation model; Strait of Gibraltar

Indexed keywords

EID: 84939871244     PISSN: 09307575     EISSN: 14320894     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00382-014-2179-4     Document Type: Article

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