Mediterranean climate and oceanography, and the periodic development of anoxic events (sapropels)

EJ Rohling, G Marino, KM Grant - Earth-Science Reviews, 2015‏ - Elsevier
Mediterranean sapropels are layers with elevated organic carbon concentrations that
contrast with surrounding sediments, which are organic poor. Sapropels occur (quasi-) …

Climate change effects on a miniature ocean: the highly diverse, highly impacted Mediterranean Sea

C Lejeusne, P Chevaldonné, C Pergent-Martini… - Trends in ecology & …, 2010‏ - cell.com
Little doubt is left that climate change is underway, strongly affecting the Earth's biodiversity.
Some of the greatest challenges ahead concern the marine realm, but it is unclear to what …

Marine ecosystems' responses to climatic and anthropogenic forcings in the Mediterranean

TMM Group, XD de Madron, C Guieu… - Progress in …, 2011‏ - Elsevier
The semi-enclosed nature of the Mediterranean Sea, together with its smaller inertia due to
the relative short residence time of its water masses, make it highly reactive to external …

Abrupt climate shift in the Western Mediterranean Sea

K Schroeder, J Chiggiato, HL Bryden, M Borghini… - Scientific reports, 2016‏ - nature.com
One century of oceanographic measurements has evidenced gradual increases in
temperature and salinity of western Mediterranean water masses, even though the vertical …

Copernicus marine service ocean state report

K von Schuckmann, PY Le Traon, N Smith… - Journal of …, 2018‏ - Taylor & Francis
The oceans regulate our weather and climate from global to regional scales. They absorb
over 90% of accumulated heat in the climate system (IPCC Citation 2013) and over a quarter …

Abrupt warming and salinification of intermediate waters interplays with decline of deep convection in the Northwestern Mediterranean Sea

F Margirier, P Testor, E Heslop, K Mallil, A Bosse… - Scientific Reports, 2020‏ - nature.com
Abstract The Mediterranean Sea is a hotspot for climate change, and recent studies have
reported its intense warming and salinification. In this study, we use an outstanding dataset …

Observations of open‐ocean deep convection in the northwestern M editerranean S ea: Seasonal and interannual variability of mixing and deep water masses for the …

L Houpert, X Durrieu de Madron… - Journal of …, 2016‏ - Wiley Online Library
We present here a unique oceanographic and meteorological data set focus on the deep
convection processes. Our results are essentially based on in situ data (mooring, research …

Interaction of dense shelf water cascading and open‐sea convection in the northwestern Mediterranean during winter 2012

X Durrieu de Madron, L Houpert, P Puig… - Geophysical …, 2013‏ - Wiley Online Library
The winter of 2012 experienced peculiar atmospheric conditions that triggered a massive
formation of dense water on the continental shelf and in the deep basin of the Gulf of Lions …

The Mediterranean Sea system: a review and an introduction to the special issue

T Tanhua, D Hainbucher, K Schroeder, V Cardin… - Ocean …, 2013‏ - os.copernicus.org
The Mediterranean Sea is a semi-enclosed sea characterized by high salinities,
temperatures and densities. The net evaporation exceeds the precipitation, driving an anti …

Direct and semi-direct aerosol radiative effect on the Mediterranean climate variability using a coupled regional climate system model

P Nabat, S Somot, M Mallet, F Sevault, M Chiacchio… - Climate dynamics, 2015‏ - Springer
A fully coupled regional climate system model (CNRM-RCSM4) has been used over the
Mediterranean region to investigate the direct and semi-direct effects of aerosols, but also …