Abstract:The Mediterranean Sea is a semi-enclosed marginal sea characterized by a rapid overturning circulation (Millot & Taupier-Letage, 2005) where deep-water formation processes happen in both the western and eastern basins (Schroeder et al., 2012 and references therein, Pinardi et al., 2019). In the northwestern Mediterranean Sea, the intermediate water masses are characterized by a temperature and salinity maximum in subsurface corresponding to the Levantine Intermediate Waters (LIW) formed in the eastern basin in… Show more
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