The Western Mediterranean Deep Water: A proxy for climate change - art. no. L12608

Rixen, Michel; Beckers, J; Levitus, S; Antonov, J; Boyer, T; Maillard, Catherine; Fichaut, Michele; Balopoulos, E; Iona, S; Dooley, H; Garcia, M; Manca, B; Giorgetti, A; Manzella, G; Mikhailov, N; Pinardi, N; Zavatarelli, M

doi:10.1029/2005GL022702

The Western Mediterranean Deep Water: A proxy for climate change - art. no. L12608

Type

Article

Date

2005-06

Author(s)

Rixen Michel ^1,2, Beckers J ², Levitus S ³, Antonov J ³, Boyer T ³, Maillard Catherine ⁴, Fichaut Michele ⁴, Balopoulos E ⁵, Iona S ⁵, Dooley H ⁶, Garcia M ⁷, Manca B ⁸, Giorgetti A ⁸, Manzella G ⁹, Mikhailov N ¹⁰, Pinardi N ¹¹, Zavatarelli M ¹¹

Affiliation(s)

NURC, I-19138 La Spezia, Italy.
Univ Liege, Inst Phys, MARE GHER, B-4000 Liege, Belgium.
NOAA, NODC, Silver Spring, MD 20910 USA.
IFREMER, Ctr Brest, SISMER, F-29280 Plouzane, France.
Aghios Kosmas hellinikon, HNODC, NCMR, Athens 16604, Greece.
ICES, DK-1261 Copenhagen, Denmark.
IEO, Madrid 28002, Spain.
OGS, I-34010 Sgonico, Italy.
ENEA, CRAM, I-19100 La Spezia, Italy.
RIHMI WDC, Obninsk 249020, Kaluga Region, Russia.

Source

Geophysical Research Letters (0094-8276) (AGU), 2005-06, Vol. 32, N. 12, P. NIL_47-NIL_50

DOI

10.1029/2005GL022702

Archimer ID

760

WOS© Times Cited

233

Language(s)

English

Publisher

AGU

Reconstructions of Mediterranean ocean temperature fields back to 1950 show a proxy relationship between heat content changes in the North Atlantic and the Western Mediterranean Deep Water ( WMDW) formed in the Gulf of Lions in winter, because of consistent air-sea heat fluxes over these areas, strongly correlated to the North Atlantic Oscillation ( NAO).

Keyword(s)

North Atlantic, West mediterranee, Thermohaline circulation, Temperature variation, Deep water, Water masses, Air sea heat flux

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Rixen Michel, Beckers J, Levitus S, Antonov J, Boyer T, Maillard Catherine, Fichaut Michele, Balopoulos E, Iona S, Dooley H, Garcia M, Manca B, Giorgetti A, Manzella G, Mikhailov N, Pinardi N, Zavatarelli M (2005). The Western Mediterranean Deep Water: A proxy for climate change - art. no. L12608. Geophysical Research Letters. 32 (12). NIL_47-NIL_50. https://doi.org/10.1029/2005GL022702, https://archimer.ifremer.fr/doc/00000/760/

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