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Modeling of the circulation in the Northwestern Mediterranean Sea with the Princeton Ocean Model
1Instituto de Recursos, Universidad del Mar, Puerto Angel, Oaxaca, México
2Centre d'Estudis Avançats de Blanes, CSIC, Blanes, Catalonia, Spain
Abstract. The Princeton Ocean Model – POM (Blumberg and Mellor, 1987) has been implemented in the Northwestern Mediterranean nested (in one-way off-line mode) to a general circulation model of the Mediterranean Sea – OGCM (Pinardi and Masetti, 2000; Demirov and Pinardi, 2002) in order to investigate if this model configuration is capable of reproducing the major features of the circulation as known from observations and to improve what has been made by previous numerical modeling works. According to the model results, the large-scale cyclonic circulation in the northern part of the Northwestern Mediterranean is, at least in the upper layers, less coherent in winter and spring than in summer and autumn. Furthermore, there is evidence that the mesoscale structure (eddies and meanders) is, during all year, a significant dynamic characteristic in this region of the Mediterranean Sea. Finally, concerning the circulation in the lower layers, the model results have confirmed that Levantine Intermediate Water (LIW) and Western Mediterranean Deep Water (WMDW) follow essentially a cyclonic path during all year.
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Citation: Ahumada, M. A. and Cruzado, A.: Modeling of the circulation in the Northwestern Mediterranean Sea with the Princeton Ocean Model, Ocean Sci., 3, 77-89, doi:10.5194/os-3-77-2007, 2007. Bibtex EndNote Reference Manager XML
