Western Mediterranean Sea
Comparison of global geomagnetic field models and evaluation using marine datasets in the north eastern Atlantic Ocean and western Mediterranean Sea
... mean sea level; NASA: National Aeronautics and Space Administration; NCEI: National Centers for Environmental Information; NEAWM: north‑eastern Atlantic Ocean and western Mediterranean Sea ...
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Development of coccolithophore-based transfer functions in the western Mediterranean sea: a sea surface salinity reconstruction for the last 15.5 kyr
... culating the species optima, only the most taxonomically similar analogs, and is more sensitive to local conditions (Telford and Birks, 2009). Fossil samples lack good analogs for the H2 and H1, coinciding with large ...
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Hydrodynamic modelling of coastal seas: the role of tidal dynamics in the Messina Strait, Western Mediterranean Sea
... Abstract. This work explores the importance of consider- ing tidal dynamics when modelling the general circulation in the Messina Strait, a narrow passage connecting the Tyrrhe- nian and the Ionian subbasins in the ...
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Levels of Mercury and Polychlorobiphenyls in Bluefin Tuna from the Western Mediterranean Sea: A Food Safety Issue?
... Twenty-three samples of bluefin tuna (Thunnus thynnus) caught in spring 2012 off the coasts of Sardinia in the North Western Mediterranean Sea were analysed. Sam- ples were caught in Porto Corallo ...
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High-resolution observations in the western Mediterranean Sea: the REP14-MED experiment
... Different schemes were adopted to assimilate the survey data. While Onken (2017a, b) applied objective analysis, a hybrid variational-ensemble scheme was developed by Oddo et al. (2016), and Hernandez-Lasheras and Mourre ...
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Turbulent dispersion properties from a model simulation of the western Mediterranean Sea
... In the present work, we study the dispersion of passive particle pairs, near the surface, in the western Mediterranean Sea. We use a high-resolution model able to reproduce a re- alistic level of ...
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Sea surface temperature variability in the central-western Mediterranean Sea during the last 2700 years: a multi-proxy and multi-record approach
... the Mediterranean (Pujol and Vergnaud-Grazzini, 1995) and with results from multiannual sediment trap monitoring in the Alboran Sea and the GoL, where maximum ...some western Mediterranean ...
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Comparative Pattern of Octopus vulgaris Life Cycle with Environmental Parameters in the Northern Alboran Sea (Western Mediterranean Sea)
... the Western Mediterranean during ...Alboran Sea (westernmost sector of the Mediterraean ...Alboran Sea in the frame of different monitoring ...Alboran Sea, trying to close in this way ...
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Factors affecting the quality of XBT data – results of analyses on profiles from the Western Mediterranean Sea
... Unfortunately, the technique proposed in Hanawa et al. (1994, 1995) cannot be applied to the temperature pro- files from the Mediterranean Sea because of the high vertical homogeneity that frequently ...
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Estimating cetacean density and abundance in the Central and Western Mediterranean Sea through aerial surveys : implications for management
... In the Southern Tyrrhenian Sea in winter, again the estimates were not significantly different but the point estimates were rather lower in 2014 (25,800 vs 37,700). Examination of the spatial modelling predictions ...
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Potential deployment of offshore bottom pressure gauges and adoption of data assimilation for tsunami warning system in the western Mediterranean Sea
... WMB: Western Mediterranean Basin; OBPGs: offshore bottom pressure gauges; TDA: tsunami data assimilation; CoS: coast of Spain; NAC: North African Coast; LS: Ligurian Sea; WCITS: west coast of Italy ...
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Holocene climate variability in the North-Western Mediterranean Sea (Gulf of Lions)
... Alkenone-derived SSTs from core KSGC-31_GolHo-1B provide a regional reconstruction of Holocene climate vari- ability of the N-W Mediterranean. After a warm plateau be- tween 10 000 and 7000 yr BP, SSTs depict a ...
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Sipuncula inhabiting the coral Oculina patagonica in the western Mediterranean Sea
... Phascolosoma stephensoni is a common species per- sisting in hard substrata with a worldwide distribution. Despite it being the dominant sipunculan species inha- biting the O. patagonica skeleton samples (65.4 % of the ...
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Unique observatories for sea science and particle astrophysics: The EMSO-Antares and EMSO-Western Ionian nodes in the Mediterranean Sea
... This variability is mostly related to barotropic instabilities of the NC, but a part of it may also come from remote effects of deep-water convection and formation of deep waters in the Gulf of Lion, a major oceanic ...
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Abrupt climate changes of the last deglaciation detected in a Western Mediterranean forest record
... the Western Mediterranean due to the abrupt reorganisation of the mid-latitude atmospheric circulation occurring at cli- mate event transitions (Steffensen et ...the Western Mediterranean ...
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Thaliacean distribution and abundance in the northern part of the Levantine Sea (Crete and Cyprus) during the eastern Mediterranean climatic transient, and a comparison with the western Mediterranean basin
... northwestern Mediterranean, thaliaceans have been observed weekly over some 25 years at a site in the Bay of Villefranche-sur-mer, using a ...Possible sea- sonal variations included and corroborating ...
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Phylogeny and Antibiotic Susceptibility of Bacteria in Sediments of Aegean Sea
... Highly resistant and diverse Bacillus species belonging to the phylum Firmicutes were dominant among isolates in the study area. Similarly, resistant Bacillus species were dominantly seen beneath fish farms in Gulf of La ...
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Intensity–duration–frequency curves from remote sensing rainfall estimates: comparing satellite and weather radar over the eastern Mediterranean
... Bias results show that CHRC tends to overestimate while HRC tends to underestimate relative to radar IDFs. For short durations, the bias for both satellite datasets (gauge adjusted and unadjusted) strongly decreases with ...
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Geographical and experimental assessment of the distribution ofGracilaria species (Rhodophyta: Gigartinales) in relation to temperature
... Number of Gracilaria species in the eastern Atlantic (excluding the Mediterranean Sea) relative to the mean sea temperature {adapted from Gorshkov, 1979).. 20 °C..[r] ...
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The effect of cyclones crossing the Mediterranean region on sea level anomalies on the Mediterranean Sea coast
... the Mediterranean Sea (North Africa, south of the Atlas Mountains, Gulf of Genoa, Adriatic Sea, Cyprus area, Black Sea area) and in the northeastern At- lantic ...the Mediterranean ...
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