Persistent, Depth‐Intensified Mixing During The Western Mediterranean Transition's Initial Stages

Abstract

The Gulf of Lion (GoL) is well known to be an active dense-water formation area (Figure 1a; MEDOC Group, 1970). In this region, the Western Mediterranean Deep Water (WMDW) is formed in winter in some years by open-ocean deep convection (Marshall & Schott, 1999