The eastern basin of the Mediterranean:

• NEW! The Mid-Mediterranean Jet Artefact
• Surface circulation in the Eastern Mediterranean using drifters (2005-2007) published in  Ocean Science :  http://www.ocean-sci.net/5/559/2009/os-5-559-2009.pdf
• Amplification of a Surface-intensified Eddy Drift along Steep Shelf in the Eastern Mediterranean Sea
• On the Use of Thermal Images for Circulation Studies: Applications to the Eastern  Mediterranean Basin by I. Taupier-Letage. Chapter of the book "Remote Sensing of the European Sea", V. Barale and M. Gade eds., Springer Verlag, 2008, p153-164.

• The EGYPT operation (Eddies^[1] and GYres^[2] Paths Tracking, 2004- ...): papers, activities...
• A new hypothesis about the surface circulation in the eastern basin of the Mediterranean Sea (2005)
  
• Detailed analysis of a 5-year time series of thermal satellite images (1996-2000), and resulting new schema of the surface circulation  
• New schemas of the circulation at surface, intermediate and deep layers
  

The western basin of the Mediterranean

1. The Algerian sub-basin:

• ELISA (Eddies and Leddies Interdisciplinary Study off Algeria, 1997-1998)

• Valorisation des campagnes ELISA (en français)
• Recent results:
• Algerian eddies lifetimes and trajectories
• Levantine Intermediate Water (LIW) path in the Algerian subbasin
• Updated schemas of the circulation at surface, intermediate and deep layers 
• Evidence of two counterclockwise circuits for the circulation at intermediate and deep layers in the Algerian subbbasin
• Deep structure of an Algerian Eddy
• Spatial structures of Algerian Eddies
• Biological response to the Algerian Eddies  (8 Mb !)
• Zooplankton distribution related to the hydrodynamic features

• Role of the (mesoscale) algerian eddies in particle transfer:

• Van Haren H., C. Millot and I. Taupier-Letage, 2006. Fast deep sinking in Mediterranean eddies. Geophys. Res. Let., 33, L04606, doi: 10.1029/2005GL025367.

• Gorsky, G., L. Prieur,  Taupier-Letage I., Stemmann, L. and Picheral, M., 2002. "Large particulate matter in the Western Mediterranean:  I. LPM distribution related to mesoscale hydrodynamics." Journal of Marine Systems 33-34: 289-311.

• ADIOS (Atmospheric Deposition and Impact of pollutants, key elements and nutrients
  on the Open Mediterranean Sea; 2001-2003)

General circulation and mesoscale currents off Algeria from a network of currentmeters (1-year time series)

1. MILLOT C., M. BENZOHRA and I. TAUPIER-LETAGE, 1997. Circulation off Algeria inferred from the Médiprod-5 current meters. Deep-Sea Res., 44, 9-10, 1467-1495.

• 2 The Northern Current (ex Liguro-Provenço-Catalan)

• Effects of frontal processes on marine aggregate dynamics and fluxes. An interannual study in a permanent geostrophic front (NW Mediterranean), by Stemmann et al. , Journal of Marine Syst., Vol. 70, Issues 1-2, 1-20. doi:10.1016/j.jmarsys.2007.02.014 .

• Some features of the Northern Current in the Ligurian sub-basin (TAUPIER-LETAGE I. and C. MILLOT, 1986. General hydrodynamical features in the Ligurian Sea inferred from the DYOME Experiment. Oceanol. Acta, 9(2):119-131. )

• Hypothesis of a (episodic?) Dense Water Formation area East of the Strait of Bonifacio (Fuda, J.-L., G. Etiope, C. Millot, P. Favali, M. Calcara, G. Smriglio, and E. Boschi (2002), Warming, salting and origin of the Tyrrhenian Deep Water, /Geophys. Res. Lett./, 29(19), 1898, doi:10.1029/2001GL014072. )

Projects in the whole Mediterranean Sea:

• Hydrological variability and long term trends in the Mediterranean (CIESM HYDRO-CHANGES initiative)

• Another description of the Mediterranean outflow (C. Millot, Progress In Oceanography, Volume 82, Issue 2, August 2009, Pages 101-124, doi:10.1016/j.pocean.2009.04.016 )

•  Short-term variability of the Mediterranean in- and out-flows Millot C. (2008), Geophys. Res. Lett., 35, L15603, doi:10.1029/2008GL033762.

• Interannual salinification of the Mediterranean inflow
  Millot C., Geophys. Res. Lett., 34, L21609, doi:10.1029/2007GL031179

• Changes in the Mediterranean outflow (2006)

Claude Millot, Julio Candela, Jean-Luc Fuda and Youssef Tber, Large warming and salinification of the Mediterranean outflow due to changes in its composition, Deep Sea Research Part I: Oceanographic Research Papers, Volume 53, Issue 4, , April 2006, Pages 656-666.

• High-resolution spatio-temporal monitoring of the surface using ferries (TRANSMED, CIESM initiative)
• TRANSMED : pilot phase for a high-resolution spatio-temporal monitoring of the surface using ferries
• in Aug.2006:  included a Cetacean observation time series

Other documents: 

• Schéma de la circulation de surface en Méditerranée (in french in the text!) (d'après Millot et Taupier-Letage, 2005)

• Poster sur la circulation de surface en Méditerranée (I.Taupier-Letage, Journées Portes Ouvertes de la  base IFREMER de la Seyne /mer, Nov. 2007)

• Poster sur les difficultés de la détection du signal climatique en Méditerranée (programmes Hydro-Changes et Transmed)

• Observing the Mediterranean variability from meso- to decadal scales: how can we get the right picture?  

Draft of  the contribution to the CIESM workshop #34 :TOWARDS AN INTEGRATED SYSTEM OF MEDITERRANEAN MARINE OBSERVATORIES
16-19 January 2008, NATO Undersea Research Centre, La Spezia, Italy (http://www.ciesm.org/online/monographs/LaSpezia.html )

• The use of thermal images to infer marine circulation features: mediterranean examples. (proceedings of the Ocean and Sea Ice 2nd workshop, 2005)
• The use of the satellite thermal imagery to track mesoscale features and infer circulation in the Mediterranean   (paper published in the CIESM workshop Monograph N°27 “Strategies for understanding mesoscale processes” )                       

• Millot C., 2005. Circulation in the Mediterranean Sea: evidences, debates and unanswered questions.  Scientia Marina, 69 (suppl. 1): 5-21.

• Why biological time series require physical ones? (paper published in the CIESM workshop Monograph Mediterranean biological time series. Split , 11-14 June 2003, 142 p. (391 refs.)
• The Cetacean world as seen by physical and biological oceanographers (paper published in the CIESM workshop volume Investigating the roles of cetaceans in marine ecosystems. Venice (Italy) , 28-31 January 2004, 143 p. (417 refs.)
• The Mediterranean Water Masses Acronyms (CIESM roundtable output, 2001)