The Western Mediterranean Deep Water: A proxy for climate change
Abstract
Reconstructions of Mediterranean ocean temperature fields back to 1950 show a proxy relationship between heat content changes in the North Atlantic and the Western Mediterranean Deep Water (WMDW) formed in the Gulf of Lions in winter, because of consistent air-sea heat fluxes over these areas, strongly correlated to the North Atlantic Oscillation (NAO).
- Publication:
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Geophysical Research Letters
- Pub Date:
- June 2005
- DOI:
- 10.1029/2005GL022702
- Bibcode:
- 2005GeoRL..3212608R
- Keywords:
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- Global Change: Climate variability (1635;
- 3305;
- 3309;
- 4215;
- 4513);
- Oceanography: General: Climate and interannual variability (1616;
- 1635;
- 3305;
- 3309;
- 4513);
- Global Change: Regional climate change