Article ID | Journal | Published Year | Pages | File Type |
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4464164 | Global and Planetary Change | 2009 | 4 Pages |
Abstract
Altimetry measurements over the Ionian region and tide gauge records along the southern Italian coasts have been combined to analyse the negative sea level trend over the Ionian basin in the last decades. The apparent decreasing trend should be better understood as an abrupt sea level drop in 1998 probably linked to changes in the surface circulation in the Ionian basin induced by the Eastern Mediterranean Transient, which changed from anticyclonic to cyclonic about March 1998. From then onwards, a rising rate of 7.9 ± 0.9 mm/year is observed over the basin.
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Authors
Jorge Del Río Vera, Francisco Criado-Aldeanueva, Jesús García-Lafuente, F. Javier Soto-Navarro,