| Title: | Experimental evidence of long-term oceanic circulation reversals without wind influence in the North Ionian Sea |
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| Authors: | ID Rubino, Angelo (Author)
ID Gačić, Miroslav (Author)
ID Bensi, Manuel (Author)
ID Kovacevic, Vedrana (Author)
ID Malačič, Vlado (Author)
ID Menna, Milena (Author)
ID Negretti, Maria Eletta (Author)
ID Sommeria, Joel (Author)
ID Zanchettin, Davide (Author)
ID Barreto, Ricardo V. (Author)
ID Ursella, Laura (Author)
ID Cardin, Vanessa (Author)
ID Civitarese, Giuseppe (Author)
ID Orlić, Mirko (Author)
ID Petelin, Boris (Author)
ID Siena, Giuseppe (Author) |
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| Files: |  URL - Source URL, visit https://www.nature.com/articles/s41598-020-57862-6
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| Language: | English |
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| Typology: | 1.01 - Original Scientific Article |
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| Organization: |  NIB - National Institute of Biology
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| Abstract: | Under the emerging features of interannual-to-decadal ocean variability, the periodical reversals of the North Ionian Gyre (NIG), driven mostly by the mechanism named Adriatic-Ionian Bimodal Oscillating System (BiOS), are known as impacting on marine physics and biogeochemistry and potentially influencing short-term regional climate predictability in the Eastern Mediterranean. Whilst it has been suggested that local wind forcing cannot explain such variability, aspects of the alternative hypothesis indicating that NIG reversals mainly arises from an internal ocean feedback mechanism alone remain largely debated. Here we demonstrate, using the results of physical experiments, performed in the world’s largest rotating tank and numerical simulations, that the main observed feature of BiOS, i.e., the switch of polarity of the near-surface circulation in the NIG, can be induced by a mere injection of dense water on a sloping bottom. Hence, BiOS is a truly oceanic mode of variability and abrupt polarity changes in circulation can arise solely from extreme dense water formation events. |
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| Keywords: | physical oceanography, climate and Earth system modelling |
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| Publication status: | Published |
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| Publication version: | Version of Record |
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| Publication date: | 05.02.2020 |
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| Year of publishing: | 2020 |
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| Number of pages: | str. 1-9 |
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| Numbering: | Vol. 10 |
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| PID: | 20.500.12556/DiRROS-19505  |
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| UDC: | 574.5 |
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| ISSN on article: | 2045-2322 |
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| DOI: | 10.1038/s41598-020-57862-6 |
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| COBISS.SI-ID: | 5309519 |
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| Note: | Nasl. z nasl. zaslona;
Opis vira z dne 6. 2. 2020;
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| Publication date in DiRROS: | 19.07.2024 |
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