2024-03-29T12:56:23Zhttp://digital.csic.es/dspace-oai/requestoai:digital.csic.es:10261/74662017-07-05T10:17:31Zcom_10261_2855com_10261_4col_10261_2857
2008-10-03T11:25:57Z
urn:hdl:10261/7466
Leaking method approach to surface transport in the Mediterranean Sea from a numerical ocean model
Schneider, Judit
Fernández, Vicente
Hernández-García, Emilio
Mediterranean Sea
Lagrangian transport
Dynamical structures
Exchange rates
Ocean modelling
16 pages (final publisher version), 22 pages (attached post-print version).-- ArXiv pre-print: http://arxiv.org/abs/physics/0410003
We use Lagrangian diagnostics (the leaking and the exchange methods) to characterize surface transport out of and between selected regions in the Western Mediterranean. Velocity fields are obtained from a numerical model. Residence times of water of Atlantic origin in the Algerian basin, with a strong seasonal dependence, are calculated. Exchange rates between these waters and the ones occupying the northern basin are also evaluated. At surface, northward transport is dominant, and involves filamental features and eddy structures that can be identified with the Algerian eddies. The impact on these results of the presence of small scale turbulent motions is evaluated by adding Lagrangian diffusion.
2008-10-03T11:25:57Z
2008-10-03T11:25:57Z
2005-08-01
artículo
Journal of Marine Systems 57, 111-126 (2005)
0924-7963
http://hdl.handle.net/10261/7466
10.1016/j.jmarsys.2005.04.001
eng
http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.jmarsys.2005.04.001
openAccess
Elsevier