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Gibraltar experiment : current measurements in the Strait of Gibraltar: October 1985-October 1986
The Gibraltar Experiment is a many faceted study of the dynamics
and kinematics of the exchange between the Atlantic and Mediterranean
through the Strait of Gibraltar (Bryden and Kinder, 1986). Net
evaporation over the Mediterranean basin forces a surface inflow of
Atlantic water and a nearly compensating deep outflow of saltier
Mediterranean water through the Strait which together maintain the
water and salt budgets for the Mediterranean Sea (Lacombe and Richez,
1982). The central hypothesis of the Gibraltar Experiment is that the
narrowness and shallowness of the Strait combined with the dynamics of
a two-layer flow controls the amount of exchange through the Strait.
The Gibraltar Experiment field program was designed to measure the
exchange between the Atlantic and Mediterranean and to diagnose the
dynamical processes dominating the two-layer flow through the Strait
of Gibraltar