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Articles | Volume 21, issue 4
Articles | Volume 21, issue 4
https://doi.org/10.5194/os-21-1441-2025
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Articles | Volume 21, issue 4
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22 Jul 2025
Research article |  | 22 Jul 2025

Surface saline lakes in the Mediterranean Sea

Elena Terzić, Clara Gardiol, and Ivica Vilibić

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Vertical salinity profiles with their highest values at the surface layers – surface saline lakes – have been known to occur in the eastern Mediterranean, where strong evaporation, warm summers, and low winds all contribute to an increase in surface salinity. Our analysis of Argo data from the past 2 decades showed that saline lakes also occur in other regions across the Mediterranean Sea. This poses the question of whether such changes indicate a salinification of the entire basin due to climate change.
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