Currents in the Mediterranean, Evolution of the Mediterranean with climate change
If
you think that the Mediterranean is just plain blue and calm, look at
the reality with the satellite thermal pictures: eddies and packs of
entangled eddies actually fill the (sub)basins of the Mediterranean.
Such (mesoscale) eddies induce a high variability of the currents in
both time and space. This complexity then puts oceanographers through
an ordeal -and potentially leads to different analyses of the
observations.
What
do we know for certain on the water masses circulation (currents) in
the Mediterranean nowadays? Do all oceanographers agree on the
circulations schemas? What is the impact of climate change on the
temperature and salinity of the Mediterranean?