- 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 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
General circulation and mesoscale currents off Algeria from a network of currentmeters (1-year time series)
- ADIOS (Atmospheric Deposition and Impact of pollutants, key elements and nutrients
on the Open Mediterranean Sea; 2001-2003)
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. )
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.
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.
- Interannual salinification of the Mediterranean inflow
Millot C., Geophys. Res. Lett., 34, L21609, doi:10.1029/2007GL031179
- 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)
Draft of the contribution to the CIESM workshop #34 :TOWARDS AN INTEGRATED SYSTEM OF MEDITERRANEAN MARINE OBSERVATORIES
- Poster sur les difficultés de la détection du signal climatique en Méditerranée (programmes Hydro-Changes et Transmed)
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)
Terminology
Gyres are circulation features induced by wind and/or thermohaline forcing and/or topographic features (such as straits) that are clearly constrained by the bathymetry (at basin and subbasin scales),and thusthey do not propagate. They are characterised as clockwise in the Alboran (mainly due to the orientation of the Strait of Gibraltar) and everywhere else as counterclockwise (due to the Coriolis effect). Parts of the gyres can be unstable.
Eddies are phenomena generated either by processes that destabilise alongslope currents (such as the Algerian Current) or by the wind stress curl locally induced by orographic effects. They are characterised as cyclonic / anticyclonic, not constrained by the bathymetry and can move. Eddies are mesoscale (some 10s to a few 100s km) features that will be characterised as small (up to ~50 km), medium (50-150 km) or large (150-250 km).
The term "basin" is assigned exclusively to the two major parts of the Mediterranean Sea
We assign the term "subbasin" to all parts of the western and eastern basins of the Mediterranean Sea that are usually referred to as seas, basins or passages. For instance, the parts of the eastern basin commonly named Ionian Sea, Cretan Passage or Levantine Basin, being not basically different, will all be qualified as "subbasins". We omit the term subbasin when self-explanatory.
