Gianluca Eusebi Borzelli & Miroslav Gacic 
The Mediterranean Sea [PDF ebook] 
Temporal Variability and Spatial Patterns

Contributors ix
Preface xi
1 Introduction to The Mediterranean Sea: Temporal Variability
and Spatial Patterns
Gian Luca Eusebi Borzelli, Paola Malanotte-Rizzoli, Miroslav
Gacic, and Piero Lionello 1
2 Spatiotemporal Variability of the Surface Circulation in
the Western Mediterranean: A Comparative Study Using Altimetry and
Modeling
Ananda Pascual, Enrique Vidal-Vijande, Simón Ruiz, Samuel
Somot, and Vassilis Papadopoulos 5
3 Exchange Flow through the Strait of Gibraltar as Simulated
by a sigma-Coordinate Hydrostatic Model and a z-Coordinate
Nonhydrostatic Model
Gianmaria Sannino, J. C. Sánchez Garrido, L. Liberti, and
L. Pratt 25
4 Mixing in the Deep Waters of the Western
Mediterranean
Harry Bryden, Katrin Schroeder, Mireno Borghini, Anna Vetrano,
and Stefania Sparnocchia 51
5 The 2009 Surface and Intermediate Circulation of the
Tyrrhenian Sea as Assessed by an Operational Model
E. Napolitano, R. Iacono, and S. Marullo 59
6 The Eastern Mediterranean Transient: Evidence for Similar
Events Previously?
Wolfgang Roether, Birgit Klein, and Dagmar Hainbucher 75
7 Deep-Water Variability and Interbasin Interactions in the
Eastern Mediterranean Sea
Emin Özsoy, Sarantis Sofianos, Isaac Gertman, Anneta
Mantziafou, Ali Aydogdu, Sotiria Georgiou,
Ersin Tutsak, Alex Lascaratos, Artur Hecht, and Mohammed Abdul
Latif 85
8 An Internal Mechanism Driving the Alternation of the
Eastern Mediterranean Dense/Deep Water Sources
Alexander Theocharis, George Krokos, Dimitris Velaoras, and
Gerasimos Korres 113
9 Thermohaline Variability and Mesoscale Dynamics Observed at
the Deep-Ocean Observatory E2M3A in the Southern Adriatic
Sea
Manuel Bensi, Vanessa Cardin, and Angelo Rubino 139
Index 157
Color plate section is located between pages 84 and
85.

Gian Luca Eusebi Borzelli, Space Academy Foundation,
Italy
Miroslav Gaèiæ, National Institute of Oceanography
and Experimental Geophysics, Italy
Piero Lionello, University of Salento, Italy
Paola Malanotte-Rizzoli, Massachusetts Institute of
Technology, USA