The Western Mediterranean Deep Water: A proxy for climate change

[en] [ 1] 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).

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Centre Interfacultaire de Recherches en Océanologie - MARE - GHER

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Physical, chemical, mathematical & earth Sciences: Multidisciplinary, general & others

Author, co-author :

Rixen, M.

Beckers, Jean-Marie ; Université de Liège - ULiège > Département d'astrophys.

Levitus, S.

Antonov, J.

Boyer, T.

Maillard, C.

Fichaut, M.

Balopoulos, E.

Iona, S.

Dooley, H.

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English

Title :

The Western Mediterranean Deep Water: A proxy for climate change

Publication date :

23 June 2005

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Geophysical Research Letters

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0094-8276

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1944-8007

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Amer Geophysical Union, Washington, United States - Washington

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