Ocean Science www.ocean-sci.net 1812-0784 1812-0792 2 2 2006 10.5194/os-2-281-2006 http://www.ocean-sci.net/2/281/2006/ http://www.ocean-sci.net/2/281/2006/os-2-281-2006.html http://www.ocean-sci.net/2/281/2006/os-2-281-2006.pdf 281 290 2006-12-08 Transformation of Levantine Intermediate Water tracked by MEDARGO floats in the Western Mediterranean M. Emelianov mikhail@icm.csic.es J. Font A. Turiel C. Millot J. Solé P.-M. Poulain A. Julià M.-R. Vitrià Institut de Ciències del Mar – CSIC, Passeig Marítim de la Barceloneta, 37–49, 08003 Barcelona, Spain Laboratoire d'Océanographie et de Biogéochimie, Antenne LOB-COM-CNRS, BP330, 83507 La Seyne sur Mer, France Instituto Nazionale di Oceanografia e di Geofisica Sperimentale (OGS), Borgo Grotta Gigante, 42c, 34010 Trieste, Italy A clustering methodology is applied to investigate the thermohaline structure of Levantine Intermediate Water (LIW) in the western Mediterranean basin. 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