The Effects of Climate Change and Rivers Damming in the Mediterranean Sea during the Twentieth Century

Garcia Martinez Mc, M Vargas Yanez, F Moya, P Zunino, B Bautista and Garcia Martinez Mc
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F Moya: Instituto Espanol de Oceanografia, Centro Oceanografico de Malaga, Spain
P Zunino: Univ Brest, Laboratoire d’Oceanographie Physique et Spatiale (LOPS), France
Garcia Martinez Mc: Universidad de Málaga Departamento de Ecologia, Facultad de Ciencias, Spain

International Journal of Environmental Sciences & Natural Resources, 2018, vol. 8, issue 4, 109-130

Abstract: The Mediterranean Sea transforms Atlantic Waters inflowing through the Strait of Gibraltar into saltier, cooler and denser Mediterranean Waters that outflow into the Atlantic Ocean. A theoretical steady state functioning of the Mediterranean Sea would be the result of the balance between the net heat and volume transports through the Strait of Gibraltar and the heat loss to the atmosphere through the sea surface and the net evaporation. The salt transport for the inflow and outflow should be balanced. Changes in the heat content, temperature and salinity of the Mediterranean waters reveal that the present Mediterranean functioning is out of this equilibrium state. A new analysis for MEDAR data shows that the temperature and salinity averaged for the Mediterranean Waters in the whole basin increased at rates of 0.1 oC/100 yr and 0.02 psu/100 yr during the twentieth century. This temperature trend is equivalent to 0.14 W/m2 heat absorption.

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Date: 2018
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DOI: 10.19080/IJESNR.2018.08.555741

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