Recent water mass changes in the Eastern Mediterranean

3 Recent water mass changes in the Eastern Mediterranean 

Observations on this new deep water have shown that it contains CFC s characteristic of water formed recently (Roether etal., 1996). The water has higher dissolved oxygen and lower silicate than the adjacent LDW formed in the Adriatic. Once this deep water flowed into the Levantine Basin, it caused existing deep water to mix upwards into the LIW. Klein etal. (1999) report 

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