MEDCLIC: MEDCLIC talk at EGU 2019 Assembly

MEDCLIC talk at EGU 2019 Assembly

04/10/2019

Eva Aguiar, of the MEDCLIC program, presented some of her last research results during last week in the European Geosciences Union 2019 Assembly held in Vienna (Austria) (April 7th-12th).

On this occasion, the talk was entitled “Disentangling the generation mechanisms of strong and long-lived anticyclonic mesoescale eddies in the Balearic Sea” and was included within the Ocean Session, specifically in the frame of the “Advances in Understanding of the Multi-Disciplinary Dynamics of the Southern European Seas”.

11 Apr 2019, 11:45-12:00. Oral. Session OS2.5 - Advances in Understanding of the Multi-Disciplinary Dynamics of the Southern European Seas (Mediterranean and Black Sea), room 1.85.

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Disentangling the talk

The area between the catalan coast and the Balearic coast is an eddy-generation zone, in which mesoescale anticyclonic eddies are often formed at the end of the summer due to bathymetric features. However, only some of these years, these eddies remain in the area and convert themselves in long-lived eddies. In this conference, Eva Aguiar reported some of these long-lived events, and explained the main mechanism related with their intensification and persistence in time: the anomalous presence of Atlantic waters of recent origin in the Balearic Sea. Eva also presented some evidences relating this anomalous presence of fresh water masses to unusual higher Atlantic inflows during the spring, and to intense northward transports in the Ibiza Channel.

At the end of her talk, she proposed a final possible scenario for the development of these long-lived eddies in the Balearic Sea.

The presence of these structures can modify the ocean currents and the regional water mass properties, which could strongly affect heat, salt and nutrients distributions in the area. Therefore, their monitoring and understanding are essential for climate and primary production studies.

Looking for more SOCIB in #EGU19?

An important representation of SOCIB researchers participated in the European Geosciences Union 2019 Assembly. Presentations focused on the present status, advances and scientific results from SOCIB multi-platform approach, the activities from different SOCIB Facilities, including among others, data centre, gliders, HF radar, beach monitoring and modelling, and the specific advances in operational capabilities.

You can find more information about SOCIB presence in EGU congress on the links below:

SOCIB co-conveners and chairperson:

Convener: Timothy Price; co-conveners: Matthieu De Schipper, Àngels Fernández Mora, Nadia Senechal in Oral session OS2.3 - Nearshore processes: fluid motions and sediment transport. EGU2019, Vienna, Austria. 8 Apr 2019, 8:30-10:15. Room 1.85.
Convener: Antonio Novellino; co-conveners: Simona Simoncelli, Cristian Muñoz, Luca Bonofiglio in Oral session ESSI1.1 - Informatics in Oceanography and Ocean Science. EGU2019, Vienna, Austria. 9 Apr 2019, 16:15-18:00. Room M1.
Chairperson: Cristian Muñoz in poster session ESSI1.1 - Informatics in Oceanography and Ocean Science. EGU2019, Vienna, Austria. 11 Apr 2019, 8:30-10:15. Hall X1.

Oral presentations and posters:

Eva Aguiar, B. Mourre, M. Juza, A. Révelard, J. Hernández, A. Pascual, A. Alvera-Azcárate. Disentangling the generation mechanisms of strong and long-lived anticyclonic mesoescale eddies in the Balearic Sea. EGU2019, Vienna, Austria. 11 Apr 2019, 11:45-12:00. Oral. Session OS2.5 - Advances in Understanding of the Multi-Disciplinary Dynamics of the Southern European Seas (Mediterranean and Black Sea), room 1.85. Abstract
Emma Reyes Reyes, I. Hernández-Carrasco, B. Mourre, P. Rotllán, E. Comerma, T. Tajalibakhsh, A. Rubio, J. Mader, L. Ferrer, C. De Lera Fernández, E. Álvarez-Fanjul, J. Tintoré. IBISAR downstream service: Lagrangian assessment of CMEMS and regional model products supporting emergency decision-making at sea. EGU2019, Vienna, Austria. 12 Apr 2019, 15:00-15:15. Oral. Session OS4.11 - Copernicus Marine Environment Monitoring Service (CMEMS), room 1.85.Abstract
Lorenzo Corgnati, C. Mantovani, J.L. Asensio, A. Rubio, J. Mader, E. Reyes, A. Novellino, P. Gorringe, A. Griffa. The European High Frequency Radar Node. EGU2019, Vienna, Austria. 9 Apr 2019, 16:15-16:30. Oral. Session OS4.35 - Informatics in Oceanography and Ocean Science, room M1. Abstract
Anna Rubio, J. Mader, L. Corgnati, C. Mantovani, A. Griffa, J.L. Asensio, E. Reyes, S. Tarot. High Frequency Radar-derived surface currents: a powerful new data set for CMEMS. EGU2019, Vienna, Austria. 12 Apr 2019, 14:45-15:00. Oral. Session OS4.11 - Copernicus Marine Environment Monitoring Service (CMEMS), room 7.85. Abstract
Lluis Gómez-Pujol, A. Zamora, À. Fernández-Mora, P. Souto, A. Orfila. Seagrass berm accumulation and dismantling on microtidal Mediterranean beaches: a 7-year record. EGU2019, Vienna, Austria. 12 Apr 2018, 08:30-10:15. Poster. Session GM11.2 - Coastal morphodynamics: nearshore, beach and dunes (sponsored by CCS - IGU), in Hall X2 at board number X2.103. Abstract

Angels Fernandez Mora (ICTS SOCIB), Veronica Morales (IMEDEA-CSIC-UIB), Eva Aguiar (ICTS SOCIB - MEDLIC program) and Emma Reyes (ICTS SOCIB)