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TI Near-Surface Transport Properties and Lagrangian Statistics during Two Contrasting Years in the Adriatic Sea
BT 
AF Hariri, Saeed
AS 1:1,2;
FF 1:PDG-ODE-DYNECO-PELAGOS;
C1 Ifremer, Department of Coastal Environment Dynamics (DYNECO), 29280 Plouzané, France
   National Institute of Oceanography and Experimental Geophysics (OGS), Borgo Grotta Gigante 42/c, 34010 Sgonico Trieste, Italy
C2 IFREMER, FRANCE
   OGS, ITALY
SI BREST
SE PDG-ODE-DYNECO-PELAGOS
IN WOS Ifremer UPR
   DOAJ
   copubli-europe
IF 2.744
TC 3
UR https://archimer.ifremer.fr/doc/00646/75828/76814.pdf
LA English
DT Article
DE ;Lagrangian statistics;Adriatic OGCM;Bora wind field;residence time;synthetic trajectories;drifter observations
AB This paper describes the near-surface transport properties and Lagrangian statistics in the Adriatic semi-enclosed basin using synthetic drifters. Lagrangian transport models were used to simulate synthetic trajectories from the mean flow fields obtained by the Massachusetts Institute of Technology general circulation model (MITgcm), implemented in the Adriatic from October 2006 until December 2008. In particular, the surface circulation properties in two contrasting years (2007 had a mild winter and cold fall, while 2008 had a normal winter and hot summer) are compared here. In addition, the Lagrangian statistics for the entire Adriatic Basin after removing the Eulerian mean circulation for numerical particles were calculated. The results indicate that the numerical particles were slower in this simulation when compared with the real drifters. This is because of the reduced energetic flow field generated by the MIT general circulation model during the selected years. The numerical results showed that the balanced effects of the wind-driven recirculation in the northernmost area(which would be a sea response to the Bora wind field) and the Po River discharge cause the residence times to be similar during the two selected years (182 and 185 days in 2007 and 2008, respectively). Furthermore, the mean angular momentum, diffusivity, and Lagrangian velocity covariance values are smaller than in the real drifter observations, while the maximum Lagrangian integral time scale is the same 
PY 2020
PD SEP
SO Journal Of Marine Science And Engineering
SN 2077-1312
PU MDPI AG
VL 8
IS 9
UT 000581265900001
DI 10.3390/jmse8090681
ID 75828
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