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Capturing dense shelf water cascading with a high-resolution ocean reanalysis
Departament de Dinàmica de la Terra i de l'Oceà, GRC Geociències Marines, Universitat de Barcelona, Barcelona, Spain
Jesús Peña-Izquierdo
Lobelia Earth SL, Barcelona, Spain
David Amblas
Departament de Dinàmica de la Terra i de l'Oceà, GRC Geociències Marines, Universitat de Barcelona, Barcelona, Spain
Marta Arjona-Camas
Departament de Dinàmica de la Terra i de l'Oceà, GRC Geociències Marines, Universitat de Barcelona, Barcelona, Spain
CEFREM, UMR-5110 CNRS-Université de Perpignan Via Domitia, Perpignan, France
Laia Romero
Lobelia Earth SL, Barcelona, Spain
Víctor Estella-Pérez
Lobelia Earth SL, Barcelona, Spain
Cristian Florindo-Lopez
Lobelia Earth SL, Barcelona, Spain
Antoni Calafat
Departament de Dinàmica de la Terra i de l'Oceà, GRC Geociències Marines, Universitat de Barcelona, Barcelona, Spain
Marc Cerdà-Domènech
Departament de Dinàmica de la Terra i de l'Oceà, GRC Geociències Marines, Universitat de Barcelona, Barcelona, Spain
Pere Puig
Institut de Ciències del Mar, CSIC, Barcelona, Spain
Xavier Durrieu de Madron
CEFREM, UMR-5110 CNRS-Université de Perpignan Via Domitia, Perpignan, France
Anna Sanchez-Vidal
Departament de Dinàmica de la Terra i de l'Oceà, GRC Geociències Marines, Universitat de Barcelona, Barcelona, Spain
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Dense shelf water cascading (DSWC) is an oceanographic process where dense shelf water rapidly spills over the shelf edge and cascades into the deep ocean. Using a high-resolution model that incorporates real observations from the water column and sea surface (MedSea Reanalysis), this study compares over 30 years of simulated intense DSWC with actual observations in the NW Mediterranean. We identified all the intense cascading events since 1987, with results closely matching the observations.
Dense shelf water cascading (DSWC) is an oceanographic process where dense shelf water rapidly...
