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1、JOURNALOFGEOPHYSICALRESEARCH:OCEANS,VOL.118,6371–6384,doi:10.1002/2013JC009243,2013SeasurfacetransportintheWesternMediterraneanSea:ALagrangianperspective1123451J.-M.Sayol,A.Orfila,G.Simarro,C.Lopez,L.Renault,A.Galan,andD.ContiReceived28June2013;revised31October2013;ac
2、cepted31October2013;published2December2013.[2]WestudytheseasurfacetransportintheWesternMediterraneanSeafromaLagrangianpointofview,inparticulartheAlboranandtheNorth-Westernsubbasins.Thestudyiscarriedoutthroughtheanalysisof3yearsofsurfacevelocitymodeldatathroughFiniteSize
3、LyapunovExponents,ResidenceTime,andvirtualparticletrajectoriescomplementingtheclassicalEulerianapproach.ThespatiotemporalvariabilityofthemaintransportprocessesisinferredfromtheEmpiricalOrthogonalFunctionmodesoftheLyapunovExponents,beingthemostrelevantmodesdiscussedandph
4、ysicallyinterpreted.ResultsindicatethatsomeofthevariabilityinthesurfacetransportpatternsintheWesternMediterraneancanbeexplainedbyspecificmodeswhichprovideanindicationofconnectivityamongsubbasins,liketheinflowofAtlanticwatersthroughtheIbizaChannel.Citation:Sayol,J.-M.,A.Or
5、fila,G.Simarro,C.Lopez,L.Renault,A.Galan,andD.Conti(2013),SeasurfacetransportintheWesternMediterraneanSea:ALagrangianperspective,J.Geophys.Res.Oceans,118,6371–6384,doi:10.1002/2013JC009243.1.Introductionobservationaltechniques[Poulainetal.,2012],aswellasbythedevelopme
6、ntofatheoreticalbasisfortheLagran-[3]TheWesternMediterraneanSea(WMS)isamarinegiancharacterizationor,inotherwords,thestudyofoceanbiodiversityhotspot,aplacewherecoexistphysicalproc-flowsbyfollowingfluidparticletrajectories[Marianoessesatdifferentspatialandtemporalscalesinte
7、ractingetal.,2002;d’Ovidioetal.,2004;Shaddenetal.,2005;amongthem[Roussenovetal.,1995;BergamascoandManchoetal.,2006].ThetransportintheoceansurfaceMalanotte-Rizzoli,2010].ThecirculationofthesurfacehasbeenthusapproachedunderthisLagrangianperspec-watersintheWMSistheresultof
8、theenergeticinputs,tive[Buffonietal.,1997;Ozgökmenetal€.2000;Iudiconemainlyfromwindatthemostsurfacelayers,andt