The Western Mediterranean Deep Water: A proxy for climate change - art. no. L12608

• Published in: Geophysical Research Letters
• Main Authors: Rixen, Michel, Beckers, J, Levitus, S, Antonov, J, Boyer, T, Maillard, Catherine, Fichaut, Michele, Balopoulos, E, Iona, S, Dooley, H, Garcia, M, Manca, B, Giorgetti, A, Manzella, G, Mikhailov, N, Pinardi, N, Zavatarelli, M
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: English
• Published: AGU 2005
• Subjects: North Atlantic; West mediterranee; Thermohaline circulation; Temperature variation; Deep water; Water masses; Air sea heat flux; North Atlantic oscillation
• Online Access: https://archimer.ifremer.fr/doc/2005/publication-760.pdf; https://doi.org/10.1029/2005GL022702; https://archimer.ifremer.fr/doc/00000/760/

Reconstructions of Mediterranean ocean temperature fields back to 1950 show a proxy relationship between heat content changes in the North Atlantic and the Western Mediterranean Deep Water ( WMDW) formed in the Gulf of Lions in winter, because of consistent air-sea heat fluxes over these areas, strongly correlated to the North Atlantic Oscillation ( NAO).