Simulation of the Mediterranean Sea circulation from 1979 to 1993: Part I. The interannual variability

Demirov, E.; Pinardi, Nadia

doi:10.1016/s0924-7963(02)00051-9

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“…On the other hand, a negative trend (<−4 mm year −1 ) has been observed in the Ionian Sea as a consequence of an important change in the circulation observed in this basin since the beginning of the 1990s. (Demirov and Pinardi 2002;Pinardi et al 2015). We found a maximum negative trend in the Levantine basin, south-east of Crete associated with the Ierapetra gyre.…”

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Sea-level variability in the Mediterranean Sea from altimetry and tide gauges

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mean sea-level and the coastal stations. From 1993 to 2012, the mean sea-level trend (2.44 ± 0.5 mm year −1 ) was found to be affected by the positive anomalies of 2010 and 2011, which were observed in all the cases analysed and were mainly distributed in the eastern part of the basin. Ensemble empirical mode decomposition showed that these events were related to the processes that have dominant periodicities of ∼10 years, and positive residual sea-level trend were generally observed in both data-sets. In terms of mean sea-level trends, a significant positive sea-level trend (>95 %) in the Mediterranean Sea was found on the basis of at least 15 years of data.

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Sea-level variability in the Mediterranean Sea from altimetry and tide gauges

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“…The surface salinity varies from 37.6‰ to 38.2‰ between winter and summer (Demirov and Pinardi, 2002). The surface currents follow an anticyclonic regime, flowing parallel to the coastline from west to east with maximum velocities of 0.9 knots (Istituto Idrografico della Marina, 1982).…”

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Submarine canyons of north-western Sicily (Southern Tyrrhenian Sea): Variability in morphology, sedimentary processes and evolution on a tectonically active margin

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2014

Deep Sea Research Part II: Topical Studies in Oceanography

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a b s t r a c tSwath-bathymetry, mono-channel and multi-channel seismic reflection records acquired during the last two decades on the northern Sicilian margin have unveiled a dense network of submarine canyons within the depth range of 80-2100 m. The canyons display a relevant variability in their geometry, morphology and sedimentary processes. The margin shows a young, tectonically active shelf to slope setting, linking the Sicilian-Maghrebian Thrust Belt to the Tyrrhenian oceanic realm, developed during the Neogene-Quaternary time span. The aim of this study is to highlight the main governing factors that contributed to the evolution and differentiation of the northern Sicilian canyons, mainly focusing on the Gulf of Palermo and on the Gulf of Castellammare. Tectonic control is more evident in the canyons of the Gulf of Palermo, with submarine landslides retrograding on a steep slope and mainly controlling their evolution. Otherwise, canyons, tributaries and gullies mapped in the Gulf of Castellammare developed on a less steep substrate and display sinuous to meandering paths, with a relevant role of coastal/shelf sedimentary inputs and downslope turbidity processes in their formation. Results suggest that, despite the geographically close proximity of the two study areas, the different structural settings of the Castellammare and Palermo Basins are mainly responsible for canyon variability. Data indicate likely ongoing uplift and tilting movements along the Sicilian margin, influencing the development of the studied canyons, which have probably been more active during the Quaternary glacial maxima than they are in the present day.

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“…The procedure used to make the coastline, the bathymetry and the vertical level distribution is described in the Appendix. The Atlantic box is very large with respect to previous implementations (Demirov and Pinardi, 2002) and it will be described in detail below.…”

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“…Several of these comparisons between data and model level distribution were performed in a preliminary phase in order to decide the number of levels of the vertical grid of the model. The model is also new for the Mediterranean Sea since it uses an implicit free-surface parameterization instead of a rigid lid like all the other models implemented for the region (Demirov and Pinardi, 2002;Beranger et al, 2004).This allows for a water flux forcing in equilibrium with the salt flux. Furthermore, free-surface models in the Mediterranean Sea allow an important improvement in the realism of the simulations permitting a net water influx at Gibraltar to compensate for the positive water losses at the air-sea interface.…”

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A high-resolution free-surface model of the Mediterranean Sea

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Abstract. This study describes a new model implementation for the Mediterranean Sea with what is currently the highest vertical resolution over the Mediterranean basin. The resolution is of 1/16 • ×1/16 • in the horizontal and has 72 unevenly spaced vertical levels. This model has been developed in the frame of the EU-MFSTEP project and is the operational forecast model currently used at the basin scale.The model considers an implicit free surface and this characteristic enhances the model's capability to simulate the sea surface height variability and the net transport at the Strait of Gibraltar.In this study we show the calibration/validation experiments performed before and after the model was used for forecasting. The first experiment consists of a six-year simulation forced by a perpetual year forcing, and the other experiment is a simulation from January 1997 to December 2004, forcing the model with 6-h atmospheric forcing fields from ECMWF. The model Sea Level Anomaly has been compared for the first time with satellite SLA and with ARGO data to provide evidence of the quality of the simulation.The results show that this model is capable of reproducing most of the variability of the general circulation in the Mediterranean Sea. However, some basic model inadequacies stand out and should be corrected in the near future.

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Simulation of the Mediterranean Sea circulation from 1979 to 1993: Part I. The interannual variability

Cited by 163 publications

References 38 publications

Sea-level variability in the Mediterranean Sea from altimetry and tide gauges

Sea-level variability in the Mediterranean Sea from altimetry and tide gauges

Submarine canyons of north-western Sicily (Southern Tyrrhenian Sea): Variability in morphology, sedimentary processes and evolution on a tectonically active margin

A high-resolution free-surface model of the Mediterranean Sea

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