Articles | Volume 12, issue 1
https://doi.org/10.5194/os-12-233-2016
https://doi.org/10.5194/os-12-233-2016
Research article
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12 Feb 2016
Research article |  | 12 Feb 2016

Long-term variability of the southern Adriatic circulation in relation to North Atlantic Oscillation

L. Shabrang, M. Menna, C. Pizzi, H. Lavigne, G. Civitarese, and M. Gačić

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The interannual variation of the strength of the SAG in relation to NAO was studied. The intensity of the gyre is associated with the large-scale climatic variations via the wind-stress curl forcing. However due to the rather important contribution of the vorticity advection from the Ionian, which is more significant during the anticyclonic BiOS, there is no clear evidence of a direct effect of large-scale atmospheric circulation (NAO) on the interannual variability of the intensity of the SAG.