Northern Adriatic Response to a Wintertime Bora Wind Event

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Apr 2005

adsabs.harvard.edu/cgi-bin/nph-data_query?bibcode=2005eostr..86..157l&link_type=abstract

EOS Transactions, AGU, Volume 86, Issue 16, p. 157-163

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Oceanography: General: Marginal And Semi-Enclosed Seas, Oceanography: Biological And Chemical: Sorptive Scavenging

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During winters, the northern Adriatic Sea experiences frequent, intense cold-air outbreaks that drive oceanic heat loss and imprint complex but predictable patterns in the underlying waters. This strong, reliable forcing makes this region an excellent laboratory for observational and numerical investigations of air-sea interaction, sediment and biological transport, and mesoscale wind-driven flow. Narrow sea surface wind jets, commonly known as ``bora,'' occur when cold, dry air spills through gaps in the Dinaric Alps (the mountain range situated along the Adriatic's eastern shore). Horizontal variations in these winds drive a mosaic of oceanic cyclonic and anticyclonic cells that draw coastal waters far into the middle basin. The winds also drive intense cooling and overturning, producing a sharp front between dense, vertically homogenous waters (North Adriatic Dense Water, or NAdDW) in the north and the lighter (colder, fresher), stratified waters of the Po River plume. Once subducted at the front, the NAdDW flows southward in a narrow vein following the isobaths (contours of constant depth) of the Italian coast. In addition to governing the basin's general circulation, these processes also influence sediment transport and modulate biological and optical variability.

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