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K):29–66. https://doi.org/10.1007/b107143
Napolitano E, Iacono R, Ciuffardi T, Reseghetti F, Poulain P-M, Notarstefano G (2019) The
Tyrrhenian Intermediate Water (TIW): characterization and formation mechanisms. Prog
Oceanogr 170:53–68. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.pocean.2018.10.017
Naranjo C, García-Lafuente J, Sannino G, Sánchez-Garrido JC (2014) How much do tides affect the
circulation of the Mediterranean Sea? From local processes in the Strait of Gibraltar to basinscale effects. Prog Oceanogr 127:108–116
Naranjo C, Sammartino S, García-Lafuente J, Bellanco MJ, Taupier-Letage I (2015) Mediterranean
waters along and across the Strait of Gibraltar, characterization and zonal modification. DeepSea Res I 105:41–52
Nykjaer L (2009) Mediterranean Sea surface warming 1985-2006. Clim Res 39:11–17. https://doi.
org/10.3354/cr00794
Olita A, Capet A, Claret M, Mahadevan A, Poulain PM, Ribotti A, Ruiz S, Tintoré J, TovarSánchez A, Pascual A (2017) Frontal dynamics boost primary production in the summer
stratified Mediterranean Sea. Ocean Dyn 67:767–782. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10236-0171058-z
Parrilla G, Kinder TH, Preller RH (1986) Deep and intermediate Mediterranean water in the
Western Alboran Sea. Deep-Sea Res I 33(1):55–88. https://doi.org/10.1016/0198-0149(86)
90108-1
Perkins H, Kinder T, La Violette P (1990) The Atlantic inflow in the Western Alboran Sea. J Phys
Oceanogr 20(2):242–263
Pinot JM, Ganachaud A (1999) The role of winter intermediate waters in the spring-summer
circulation of the Balearic Sea: 1. Hydrography and inverse box modeling. J Geophys Res
104(C12):29843–29864. https://doi.org/10.1029/1999JC900202
Pinot JM, Tintoré J, Gomis D (1995) Multivariate analysis of the surface circulation in the Balearic
Sea. Prog Oceanogr 36:343–376
Poulain P-M, Bussani A, Gerin R, Jungwirth R, Mauri E, Menna M, Notarstefano G (2013)
Mediterranean surface currents measured with drifters: from Basin to Subinertial scales. Oceanography 26:38–47. https://doi.org/10.5670/oceanog.2013.03
Renault L, Oguz T, Pascual A, Vizoso G, Tintoré J (2012) Surface circulation in the Alboran Sea
(western Mediterranean) inferred from remotely sensed data. J Geophys Res 117:C08009.
https://doi.org/10.1029/2011JC007659
Rohling EJ, Bryden HL (1992) Man-induced salinity and temperature increase in Western Mediterranean Deep Water. J Geophys Res 97(C7):11191–11198. https://doi.org/10.1029/
92JC00767
Ruíz S, Gomis D, Sotillo MG, Josey SA (2008) Characterization of surface heat fluxes in the
Mediterranean Sea from a 44-year high-resolution atmospheric data set. Glob Planet Change
63:258–274. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.gloplacha.2007.12.002
Salat J, Font J (1987) Water mass structure near and offshore the Catalan coast during the winters of
1982 and 1983. Annales Geophysicae 5B(1):49–54
Sammari C, Millot C, Taupier-Letage I, Stefani A, Brahim M (1999) Hydrological characteristics in
the Tunisia-Sardinia-Sicikly area during spring 1995. Deep-Sea Res I 46:1671–1703
Sánchez-Gómez E, Somot S, Josey SA, Dubois C, Elguindi N, Déqué M (2011) Evaluation of
Mediterranean Sea wáter and heat budgets simulated by an ensemble of high resolution regional
climate models. Clim Dyn 37:2067–2086. https://doi.org/10.1007/s00382-011-1012-6
Sánchez-Román A, Sannino G, García-Lafuente J, Carrillo A, Criado-Aldeanueva F (2009) Transport estimates at the western section of the Strait of Gibraltar: a combined experimental and
numerical modeling study. J Geophys Res 114(C06002). https://doi.org/10.1029/
2008JC005023
108
M. Vargas-Yáñez et al.