The Mean Sea Level Equation and Its Application to the Mediterranean Sea

Pinardi, Nadia; Bonaduce, Antonio; Navarra, Antonio; Dobričić, Srdjan; Oddo, Paolo

doi:10.1175/jcli-d-13-00139.1

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“…As described in Pinardi et al (2014) the mean sea-level in the Mediterranean Sea is composed of two parts:…”

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“…As described in Pinardi et al (2014) the MSL in the Mediterranean Sea is composed of two parts: an incompressible or mass component due to the balance between the net volume transport at the Gibraltar Strait (normalized by the Mediterranean basin area) and the net surface water flux, and a steric component due to the buoyancy fluxes that account for the thermosteric and halosteric components (Eq. 3).…”

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confidence: 99%

“…As explained in Pinardi et al (2014), when considering a limited area of the world ocean, the mean sea-level tendency is also dominated by lateral mass transport fluxes, which makes the regional mean sea-level very different from the global level (Church et al 2013). In the Mediterranean Sea, Gibraltar mass transport almost balances the surface water flux, thus changing the nature of the mean sea-level trend.…”

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Sea-level variability in the Mediterranean Sea from altimetry and tide gauges

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mean sea-level and the coastal stations. From 1993 to 2012, the mean sea-level trend (2.44 ± 0.5 mm year −1 ) was found to be affected by the positive anomalies of 2010 and 2011, which were observed in all the cases analysed and were mainly distributed in the eastern part of the basin. Ensemble empirical mode decomposition showed that these events were related to the processes that have dominant periodicities of ∼10 years, and positive residual sea-level trend were generally observed in both data-sets. In terms of mean sea-level trends, a significant positive sea-level trend (>95 %) in the Mediterranean Sea was found on the basis of at least 15 years of data.

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“…As described in Pinardi et al (2014) the mean sea-level in the Mediterranean Sea is composed of two parts:…”

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“…Similarly to Pinardi et al (2014), by integrating Eq. (2) into time and into a semienclosed basin such as the Mediterranean Sea, we obtain an equation for the mean sea level tendency:…”

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“…(5). Pinardi et al (2014) call this difference the stochastic component of the sea surface elevation tendency. In Fig.…”

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Sensitivity of the Mediterranean sea level to atmospheric pressure and free surface elevation numerical formulation in NEMO

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Abstract. The sensitivity of the dynamics of the Mediterranean Sea to atmospheric pressure and free surface elevation formulation using NEMO (Nucleus for European Modelling of the Ocean) was evaluated. Four different experiments were carried out in the Mediterranean Sea using filtered or explicit free surface numerical schemes and accounting for the effect of atmospheric pressure in addition to wind and buoyancy fluxes. Model results were evaluated by coherency and power spectrum analysis with tide gauge data. We found that atmospheric pressure plays an important role for periods shorter than 100 days. The free surface formulation is important to obtain the correct ocean response for periods shorter than 30 days. At frequencies higher than 15 days −1 the Mediterranean basin's response to atmospheric pressure was not coherent and the performance of the model strongly depended on the specific area considered. A large-amplitude seasonal oscillation observed in the experiments using a filtered free surface was not evident in the corresponding explicit free surface formulation case, which was due to a phase shift between mass fluxes in the Gibraltar Strait and at the surface. The configuration with time splitting and atmospheric pressure always performed best; the differences were enhanced at very high frequencies.

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