The Liguro-Provençal-Catalan current (NW Mediterranean) observed by Doppler profiling in the Balearic Sea
Castellón, Arturo (Institut de Ciències del Mar)
Font, Jordi 
(Institut de Ciències del Mar)
García-Ladona, Emilio 
(Institut de Ciències del Mar)
| Additional title: |
La corriente liguro-provenzal-catalana (Mediterráneo Noroccidental) observada con un perfilador Doppler en el Mar Balear |
| Date: |
1990 |
| Abstract: |
For the first time a vessel-mounted Acoustic Doppler Current Profiler has allowed a general current survey on the continental slope off northeast Spain in spring 1989. The path of the Liguro-Proven~al-Catalanc urrent has been followed from 41º 40' to 38º 45' N. The structure of the current appears to be, in the northern part, an alongslope frontal jet 35 km wide and 250 m deep, with maximum velocities of 30 c d s and a total flux of 1 Sv. In the southern part, the Gulf of Valencia, the current weakens and is partially detached from the slope and entrained in an anticyclonic gyre. Most of the flow feeds the return Balearic current and only a small part, 0. 24 Sv, leaves the basin through the Eivissa sill. |
| Note: |
Altres ajuts: CICYT/MAR88-0252 |
| Note: |
Altres ajuts: CICYT/PB86-0628 |
| Rights: |
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| Language: |
Anglès |
| Document: |
Article ; recerca ; Versió publicada |
| Subject: |
General circulation ;
Shelf/slope current ;
Frontal jet ;
Acoustic Doppler profiling ;
Northwestern Mediterranean ;
Circulación general ;
Corriente de talud/plataforma ;
Chorro frontal ;
Perfilador acústico por efecto Doppler ;
Mediterráneo noroccidental |
| Published in: |
Scientia marina, Vol. 54, No. 3 (1990) , p. 269-276, ISSN 0214-8358 |
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