The Western Mediterranean Deep Water: A proxy for climate change

Rixen, M.; Beckers, Jean-Marie; Levitus, Sydney; I. Antonov, John; P. Boyer, Timothy; Maillard, C.; Fichaut, Michèle; Balopoulos, E.; Athanasia, Iona; D. Dooley, H.; J. Garcia, M.; Manca, B.; Giorgetti, Alessandra; M.R. Manzella, Giuseppe; N. Mikhaĭlov, N.; Pinardi, Nadia; Zavatarelli, Marco

doi:10.1029/2005gl022702

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The Western Mediterranean Deep Water: A proxy for climate change

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Authors:

M. Rixen

Jean-Marie Beckers

Sydney Levitus

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, stron...

Subject

Mediterranean climate

North Atlantic oscillation

Proxy (statistics)

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