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TI Impact of Dense Water Formation on the Transfer of Particles and Trace Metals from the Coast to the Deep in the Northwestern Mediterranean
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AF Durrieu de Madron, Xavier
   Aubert, D.
   Charrière, B.
   Kunesch, S.
   Menniti, C.
   Radakovitch, O.
   Sola, J.
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C1 Centre de Formation et de Recherche sur les Environnements Méditerranéens, UMR 5110, CNRS-Université de Perpignan Via Domitia, 52 Avenue Paul Alduy, 66860 Perpignan, France
   Institut de Radioprotection et de Sûreté Nucléaire, PSE/SRTE/LRTA, BP 3, 13115 Saint-Paul-Lez-Durance, France
C2 UNIV PERPIGNAN, FRANCE
   IRSN, FRANCE
IF 3.4
TC 4
UR https://archimer.ifremer.fr/doc/00816/92754/99061.pdf
LA English
DT Article
CR CASCADE
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   REMORA3
BO L'Atalante
   L'Europe
DE ;dense water formation;cascading;convection;Mediterranean;particulate flux;metals;long term changes
AB This study aimed to describe the interannual variability of dense shelf water cascading and open ocean convection in the Gulf of Lions (NW Mediterranean) based on long-term temperature and current records and its impact on particle fluxes and associated metals. These observations highlight the predominant role of the rare intense events of dense shelf water cascading (1999/2000, 2005/2006, 2012/2013) in the basinward export of particles, which are mainly brought by rivers. Measurements of particulate trace metals in 2012 indicate that the monitored intense cascading event may be responsible for a significant fraction (~15%) of the annual input to the shelf. To this first process is added the effect of somehow more recurrent deep convection events (2005, 2009–2013) that remobilize the deep sediments, receptacle of coastal inputs, and disperse them rapidly at the scale of the northern Mediterranean basin, and gradually over the entire western basin. Coastal and oceanic dense water formations are key physical processes in the Mediterranean margins, whose reduction in intensity and recurrence has already been observed and also anticipate in climate scenarios that will likely change the dispersion pathways of chemical particles in this region. 
PY 2023
PD JAN
SO Water
SN 2073-4441
PU MDPI AG
VL 15
IS 2
UT 000918786600001
DI 10.3390/w15020301
ID 92754
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