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poster_circul_sat_Fete_SC_2018Currents in the Mediterranean, Evolution of the Mediterranean with climate change


If you think that the Mediterranean is just plain blue and calm, look at the reality with the satellite thermal pictures: eddies and packs of entangled eddies actually fill the (sub)basins of the Mediterranean. Such (mesoscale) eddies induce a high variability of the currents in both time and space. This complexity then puts oceanographers through an ordeal -and potentially leads to different analyses of the observations.


What do we know for certain on the water masses circulation (currents) in the Mediterranean nowadays? Do all oceanographers agree on the circulations schemas? What is the impact of climate change on the temperature and salinity of the Mediterranean?



 



Personal web pages of Isabelle TAUPIER-LETAGE (CNRS)  Antenne de la Seyne du MIO    

Isabelle.Taupier-Letage(at)mio.osupytheas.fr


NEWS :

  Schema of the 3D thermohaline circulation of the Mediterranean  (with acronyms of the water masses )
Note: version for outreach in english pending, meanwhile see french text (and take a free french lesson ;-) )

  Booklet  providing a wealth of information about the Mediterranean (climate, research, fisheries...)






mooring line releaseCome and dive to rescue scientific instruments stuck on the Mediterranean seafloor
at 2
300m deep with the ROV Victor 6000 !











RESSOURCES (to be organized and completed...):

ARCHIVES :
Marine heat wave in Marseille (summer 2019) as recorded by TRANSMED
Fête de la Science au Village des Sciences à la Seyne/mer (5-7/10/2018)