Inter-annual productivity variability in the North Aegean Sea: Influence of thermohaline circulation during the Eastern Mediterranean Transient

►Long-term (1985-2001) simulation of N. Aegean productivity with a biophysical model. ►Nutrient export during dense water formation events of the significant EMT period. ►Productivity variability correlated to both nutrient export and vertical mixing. ►Good correlation with available long term satellite SST and Chl-a data. ►Contribution of Salinity increase to the N. Aegean dense water formation events.