Resumen de Topographic steering of the Mediterranean Outflow West of Gibraltar
Marc Gasser Rubinat, José Luis Pelegrí Llopart, Mikhail Emelianov, Hartmut Peters, Jonathan D. Nash, Sam Kelly
The Mediterranean Outflow waters experience large changes as they exit the Gibraltar Straits. Complex bathymetry steer and divide the outgoing flow, and accelerate it generating interfacial instabilities. On the other hand, the outflow creates erosional and depositional environments and shape the underlying sea bottom. Here we describe these interactions as observed on a 35 by 25 km region west of the Strait of Gibraltar during a 15-daycruise on July 2009.
