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Interaction of dense dense shelf water cascading and open-sea convection in the Northwestern Mediterranean during winter 2012.

Pere Puig
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Anna Sanchez-Vidal
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Marie-Noëlle Bouin
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Anthony Calafat
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Miquel Canals
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Jacobo Martín
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Albert Palanques
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Abstract

The winter of 2012 experienced peculiar atmospheric conditions that triggered a massive formation of dense water on the continental shelf and in the deep basin of the Gulf of Lions. Multi-platforms observations enabled, with an unprecedented resolution, a synoptic view of dense water formation and spreading at basin scale. Five months after its formation, the dense water of coastal origin created a distinct bottom layer up to few hundreds of meters thick over the central part of the NW Mediterranean basin, which was overlaid by a layer of newly formed deep water produced by open-sea convection. These observations highlight the role of intense episodes of both dense shelf water cascading and open-sea convection to the alteration of the characteristics of the NW Mediterranean deep waters.
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hal-00920704 , version 1 (19-12-2013)

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Xavier Durrieu de Madron, Loïc Houpert, Pere Puig, Anna Sanchez-Vidal, Pierre Testor, et al.. Interaction of dense dense shelf water cascading and open-sea convection in the Northwestern Mediterranean during winter 2012.. EGU General Assembly 2013, Apr 2013, Vienne, Austria. pp.10889. ⟨hal-00920704⟩
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