Topographic Steering of the Mediterranean Outflow West of the Strait of Gibraltar

• Main Author: Sánchez-Leal, Ricardo Félix
• Format: Conference Object
• Language: English
• Published: 2016
• Subjects: Medio Marino; Centro Oceanográfico de Cádiz; Orleans; Sog; North Atlantic
• Online Access: http://hdl.handle.net/10508/10573; http://hdl.handle.net/10261/318895

The narrow (14 km) and shallow (300 m) Strait of Gibraltar (SoG) forms the oceanic gateway between Mediterranean Sea and the Atlantic Ocean. The mean exchange amounts to about 1 Sv in each direction (1 Sv = 106 m3 s-1) with the outflow of relatively cold (12.9 ºC) and highly saline (~38.45), dense (...