Recent changes in deep water formation and spreading in the eastern Mediterranean Sea: a review

A Lascaratos, W Roether, K Nittis, B Klein - Progress in oceanography, 1999 - Elsevier
… of dense water formation in the Aegean Sea. The years of 1987, 1992 and 1993 are
characterized by very extensive areas of dense water formation throughout the Aegean Sea and in …

Climate variability and deep water mass characteristics in the Aegean Sea

S Georgiou, A Mantziafou, S Sofianos, I Gertman… - Atmospheric …, 2015 - Elsevier
… We suggest that deep water formation is triggered mostly by the combination of preconditioning
during early winter and/or previous winters together with the number of subsequent …

Dense water formation in the Aegean Sea: Numerical simulations during the Eastern Mediterranean Transient

K Nittis, A Lascaratos… - Journal of Geophysical …, 2003 - Wiley Online Library
water formed in the north Aegean Sea mixes with the more saline waters of the Cretan Sea
and produces realistic water … central Aegean Sea is the primary formation site for deep water (…

Dense water formation over the Samothraki and Limnos Plateaux in the north Aegean Sea (eastern Mediterranean Sea)

A Theocharis, D Georgopoulos - Continental Shelf Research, 1993 - Elsevier
… The analysis showed that formation of distinct deep waterSea, the northern part of the
Aegean Sea and the Cretan Sea. … stated that the deep waters of the North Aegean Trough (North …

Deep water mass characteristics and interannual variability in the North and Central Aegean Sea

D Velaoras, A Lascaratos - Journal of Marine Systems, 2005 - Elsevier
… the deep water masses in the North and Central Aegean Seadeep water in the Mediterranean
has been produced in the … signifying the deep water formation period in the Aegean Sea. …

Causes of long-term changes in Aegean sea deep water

R Boscolo, H Bryden - Oceanologica Acta, 2001 - Elsevier
formed deep water in the Aegean sea prompts this analysis of whether such deep water
could be formed … in net evaporation and wintertime water mass transformation. River diversion …

Variability of deep water mass characteristics in the North Aegean Sea: The role of lateral inputs and atmospheric conditions

YS Androulidakis, VH Kourafalou, YN Krestenitis… - Deep Sea Research …, 2012 - Elsevier
deeper water mass characteristics during the period 2002–2008, employing the Hybrid
Coordinate Ocean Model for the North Aegean … North Aegean dense water formation events in a …

Transient Eastern Mediterranean deep waters in response to the massive dense-water output of the Aegean Sea in the 1990s

W Roether, B Klein, BB Manca, A Theocharis… - Progress in …, 2007 - Elsevier
Aegean Sea deep waters rose by 0.2 kg/m 3 between 1987 and 1993, and decreased more
slowly thereafter. The Aegean waters … EMT-related Aegean dense water formation and output…

[HTML][HTML] Dense Water Formation Variability in the Aegean Sea from 1947 to 2023

M Potiris, IG Mamoutos, E Tragou, V Zervakis, D Kassis… - Oceans, 2024 - mdpi.com
water formation is investigated in relation to forcing mechanisms from 1947 to 2023 in the
subbasins of the Aegean Sea… main source of deep water of the Eastern Mediterranean Sea [4,6…

[PDF][PDF] On the response of the Aegean Sea to climatic variability: a review

V Zervakis, D Georgopoulos… - International Journal of …, 2004 - academia.edu
… the deep water masses of the Aegean (Figure 2) reveals that the deep waters of the north
Aegean … of the Aegean that are known as dense-water formation sites, we loosely use the term …