Seasonal overturning circulation in the Red Sea: 1. Model validation and summer circulation

F Yao, I Hoteit, LJ Pratt, AS Bower… - Journal of …, 2014 - Wiley Online Library
The overturning circulation in the Red Sea exhibits a distinct seasonally reversing pattern
and is studied using high‐resolution MIT general circulation model simulations. In the first …

Biogeography of pelagic bacterioplankton across an antagonistic temperature–salinity gradient in the Red Sea

DK Ngugi, A Antunes, A Brune, U Stingl - Molecular ecology, 2012 - Wiley Online Library
Abstract The Red Sea is a unique marine ecosystem with contrasting gradients of
temperature and salinity along its north‐to‐south axis. It is an extremely oligotrophic …

Distribution and ecological risk assessment of some heavy metals in coastal surface sediments along the Red Sea, Egypt

A El Nemr, GF El-Said, A Khaled, S Ragab - International Journal of …, 2016 - Elsevier
The ecological risk assessment for Al, Zn, Cu, Ni, V, Pb, Cd, and Hg in surface sediment
collected from the Egyptian Red Sea coast was evaluated using the Geo-accumulation …

Relationships between water temperature, nutrients and dissolved oxygen in the northern Gulf of Aqaba, Red Sea

R Manasrah, M Raheed, MI Badran - Oceanologia, 2006 - agro.icm.edu.pl
Abstract Five years (1998, 2000–2003) of summer records of temperature, nutrients and
dissolved oxygen concentrations in the upper 400 m of the water column of the northern Gulf …

Status of trace metals in surface seawater of the Gulf of Aqaba, Saudi Arabia

AA Al-Taani, A Batayneh, Y Nazzal, H Ghrefat… - Marine Pollution …, 2014 - Elsevier
Abstract The Gulf of Aqaba (GoA) is of significant ecological value with unique ecosystems
that host one of the most diverse coral communities in the world. However, these marine …

Heavy metal contents in growth bands of Porites corals: record of anthropogenic and human developments from the Jordanian Gulf of Aqaba

SA Al-Rousan, RN Al-Shloul, FA Al-Horani… - Marine Pollution …, 2007 - Elsevier
In order to assess pollutants and impact of environmental changes in the coastal region of
the Jordanian Gulf of Aqaba, concentrations of six metals were traced through variations in 5 …

The red sea: Israel

G Eyal, R Tamir, N Kramer, L Eyal-Shaham… - Mesophotic coral …, 2019 - Springer
The mesophotic coral ecosystems (MCEs) of Eilat, in the Northern Red Sea, are among the
best-studied worldwide, as demonstrated by the high number of publications from the …

Exploring the Red Sea seasonal ecosystem functioning using a three‐dimensional biophysical model

G Triantafyllou, F Yao, G Petihakis… - Journal of …, 2014 - Wiley Online Library
Abstract The Red Sea exhibits complex hydrodynamic and biogeochemical dynamics, which
vary both in time and space. These dynamics have been explored through the development …

The general circulation of the Gulf of Aqaba (Gulf of Eilat) revisited: The interplay between the exchange flow through the Straits of Tiran and surface fluxes

E Biton, H Gildor - Journal of Geophysical Research: Oceans, 2011 - Wiley Online Library
The Gulf of Aqaba (Gulf of Eilat) is a terminal elongated basin that exchanges water with the
northern Red Sea via the Straits of Tiran. The gulf's hydrography exhibits strong seasonal …

Atmospheric dry deposition of mineral dust to the Gulf of Aqaba, Red Sea: Rate and trace elements

AA Al-Taani, M Rashdan, S Khashashneh - Marine pollution bulletin, 2015 - Elsevier
Atmospheric dry deposition to the Gulf of Aqaba (GoA) is particularly a significant source of
trace elements. Amid desert regions, the Gulf receives high fluxes of mineral dust with an …