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Transformation of Levantine Intermediate Water tracked by MedArgo floats in Western Mediterranean
1Institut de Ciències del Mar de Barcelona – CSIC, Passeig Marítim de la Barceloneta,
2Instituto Nazionale di Oceanografia e di Geofisica Sperimentale (OGS), Borgo Grotta Gigante, 42c, 34010 Trieste, Italy
Abstract. A clustering methodology is applied to investigate the thermohaline structure of Levantine Intermediate Water (LIW) in the western Mediterranean basin. 16 free-drifting hydrographic profilers were deployed in the framework of the MFSTEP project (MedArgo component) from September 2003. A total of 925 CTD profiles data collected until the beginning of February 2006 have been used in the analysis. The results are in good agreement with the general circulation scheme for intermediate waters in the basin and confirm the hypothesis about a "discrete-continuous" thermohaline structure of LIW.
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Citation: Emelianov, M., Font, J., Turiel, A., Solé, J., Poulain, P., Julià, A., and Vitrià, M. R.: Transformation of Levantine Intermediate Water tracked by MedArgo floats in Western Mediterranean, Ocean Sci. Discuss., 3, 569-584, doi:10.5194/osd-3-569-2006, 2006. Bibtex EndNote Reference Manager XML
