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Current systems
Components
System 1
1a: Atlantic Water Current (AWC)
1b: Western and Eastern Alboran Gyres
1c: Almera-Oran front
1d: Almera-Oran cyclonic eddy
1e: Algerian Current segments
1f: Western Mid-Mediterranean Current (WMMC)
1g: Southern Sardinia Current (SCC)
System 2
2a: Gulf of Lion Gyre (GLG)
2b: Liguro-Provenal-Catalan Current (LPCC)
2c: Western Corsica Current (WCC)
System 3
3a: South-Western Tyrrhenian Gyre (SWTG)
3b: South-Eastern Tyrrhenian Gyre (SETG)
3c: Northern Tyrrhenian Gyre (NTG)
3d: Middle Tyrrhenian Current
3e: Eastern Corsica Current (ECC)
System 4
4a: Atlantic-Ionian Stream (AIS)
4b: Sicily Strait Tunisian Current (SSTC)
4c: Syrte Gyre (SG)
4d: Eastern Ionian Current (EIC)
4e: Pelops Gyre (PG)
4f: Northern Ionian Cyclonic Gyre
System 5
5a: Eastern South-Adriatic Current (ESAC)
5b: Middle Adriatic Gyre
5c: South Adriatic Gyre
5d: Western Adriatic Coastal Current (WACC)
System 6
6a: Cretan Passage Southern Current (CPSC)
6b: Mid-Mediterranean Jet
6c: Southern Levantine Current (SLC)
6d: Mersa Matruh Gyre System (MMGS)
6e: Rhodes Gyre (RG)
6f: Shikmona Gyre System (SGS)
6g: Asia Minor Current
6h: Ierapetra Gyre (IPG)
6i: Western Cretan Cyclonic Gyre
System 7
7a: Cretan Sea Westward Current (CSWC)
7b: Southward Cyclades Current (SWCC)
7c: North Aegean Anticyclone
Figure 4: Schématisation des structures de circulation moyenne de surface déduite à partir des ré-analyses du champ d’écoulement moyen entre 1987 et
2007 (a : circulation de surface, b : circulation moyenne entre 200 et 300 m). Le tableau reprend la nomenclature des structures de circulation (Pinardi et
al., 2015)