Contribution of intense cascading to modifications of Western Mediterranean deep water as shown by HydroChanges mooring
2007
Font, Jordi | Puig, Pere | Salat, Jordi | Emelianov, Mikhail | Palanques, Albert | Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Científicas [https://ror.org/02gfc7t72]
38th CIESM Congress, Istanbul, Turkey.-- 1 page, 1 figure
Show more [+] Less [-]The effects of the cold, anomalously dry, and very windy winter 2005 in the deep water thermohaline properties are evidenced by a timeseries of hydrographic data recorded by the ICM HydroChanges mooring in the deep slope of the NW Mediterranean. In late January 2005intense dense shelf water cascading was observed in the Gulf of Lions’ submarine canyons, and almost simultaneously a dense deep watermass, warmer and saltier than usual, reached the deep mooring site. After 30 days, the colder, fresher and even denser waters originatedon the shelf arrived at the mooring, and their signature could be detected for 35 days. By late spring 2005 the mixture of both dense watermasses reached new stable thermohaline properties with higher values than those that characterized the deep layer before 2005
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