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| Garcialadona, E; Castellon, A; Font, J; Tintore, J. |
| The Balearic basin is a semi-enclosed basin located in the western Mediterranean Sea, connecting the Gulf of Lions and the Alboran basin. While the characteristics and circulation of the water masses have been rather well established, the exchanges with adjacent basins, essential to our understanding of the circulation in the western Mediterranean and for validating outputs of general circulation models, have never been determined in detail. We present here the data from the FE-89 (June 1989) Spanish cruise, during which high-resolution CTD and ADCP measurements were performed on the open boundaries of the Balearic basin. The fluxes for all the boundaries were calculated in a quasi-synoptic fashion. The values found in the Ibiza and Mallorca channels... |
| Tipo: Text |
Palavras-chave: Circulation; Western Mediterranean; Balearic current; Hydrography; Volume transports. |
| Ano: 1996 |
URL: http://archimer.ifremer.fr/doc/00094/20507/18176.pdf |
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