Preference Modeling to Support Stakeholder Outreach toward the Common Fishery Policy Objectives in the North Mediterranean Sea

AbstractIn this work we use a regional atmosphere–ocean coupled model (RAOCM) and its stand-alone atmospheric component to gain insight into the impact of atmosphere–ocean coupling on the climate change signal over the Iberian Peninsula (IP). The IP climate is influenced by both the Atlantic Ocean and the Mediterranean sea. Complex interactions with the orography take place there and high-resolution models are required to realistically reproduce its current and future climate. We find that under the RCP8.5 scenario, the generalized 2-m air temperature (T2M) increase by the end of the twenty-first century (2070–2099) in the atmospheric-only simulation is tempered by the coupling. The impact of coupling is specially seen in summer, when the warming is stronger. Precipitation shows regionally-dependent changes in winter, whilst a drier climate is found in summer. The coupling generally reduces the magnitude of the changes. Differences in T2M and precipitation between the coupled and uncoupled simulations are caused by changes in the Atlantic large-scale circulation and in the Mediterranean Sea. Additionally, the differences in projected changes of T2M and precipitation with the RAOCM under the RCP8.5 and RCP4.5 scenarios are tackled. Results show that in winter and summer T2M increases less and precipitation changes are of a smaller magnitude with the RCP4.5. Whilst in summer changes present a similar regional distribution in both runs, in winter there are some differences in the NW of the IP due to differences in the North Atlantic circulation. The differences in the climate change signal from the RAOCM and the driving Global Coupled Model show that regionalization has an effect in terms of higher resolution over the land and ocean.

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An algorithmic model for invasive species: Application to Caulerpa taxifolia (Vahl) C. Agardh development in the North-Western Mediterranean Sea

Ecological Modelling ◽

10.1016/s0304-3800(98)00058-1 ◽

1998 ◽

Vol 109 (3) ◽

pp. 251-266 ◽

Cited By ~ 23

Author(s):

David Hill ◽

Patrick Coquillard ◽

Jean de Vaugelas ◽

Alexandre Meinesz

Keyword(s):

Invasive Species ◽

Mediterranean Sea ◽

Western Mediterranean ◽

Caulerpa Taxifolia ◽

The North ◽

Western Mediterranean Sea ◽

Algorithmic Model ◽

North Western

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Dynamical Downscaling of ERA5 Data on the North-Western Mediterranean Sea: From Atmosphere to High-Resolution Coastal Wave Climate

Journal of Marine Science and Engineering ◽

10.3390/jmse9020208 ◽

2021 ◽

Vol 9 (2) ◽

pp. 208

Author(s):

Valentina Vannucchi ◽

Stefano Taddei ◽

Valerio Capecchi ◽

Michele Bendoni ◽

Carlo Brandini

Keyword(s):

Mediterranean Sea ◽

Wind Wave ◽

Dynamical Downscaling ◽

Wave Climate ◽

Western Mediterranean ◽

Limited Area ◽

Computational Domain ◽

Wave Hindcast ◽

The North ◽

Western Mediterranean Sea

A 29-year wind/wave hindcast is produced over the Mediterranean Sea for the period 1990–2018. The dataset is obtained by downscaling the ERA5 global atmospheric reanalyses, which provide the initial and boundary conditions for a numerical chain based on limited-area weather and wave models: the BOLAM, MOLOCH and WaveWatch III (WW3) models. In the WW3 computational domain, an unstructured mesh is used. The variable resolutions reach up to 500 m along the coasts of the Ligurian and Tyrrhenian seas (Italy), the main objects of the study. The wind/wave hindcast is validated using observations from coastal weather stations and buoys. The wind validation provides velocity correlations between 0.45 and 0.76, while significant wave height correlations are much higher—between 0.89 and 0.96. The results are also compared to the original low-resolution ERA5 dataset, based on assimilated models. The comparison shows that the downscaling improves the hindcast reliability, particularly in the coastal regions, and especially with regard to wind and wave directions.

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Further Investigation upon the Water Movements in the English Channel. Drift-Bottle Experiments in the Summers of 1927, 1928 and 1929, with Critical Notes on Drift-Bottle Experiments in General.

Journal of the Marine Biological Association of the United Kingdom ◽

10.1017/s0025315400051869 ◽

1930 ◽

Vol 17 (1) ◽

pp. 241-275 ◽

Cited By ~ 15

Author(s):

J. N. Carruthers

Keyword(s):

Wind Speed ◽

North Sea ◽

English Channel ◽

The North ◽

Different Types ◽

The North Sea ◽

The Common ◽

Relationship Of ◽

Great Simplicity ◽

Simple Surface

In July–August of three different years common surface-floating bottles were set adrift at International Station E2 (49° 27' N.—4° 42' W.). With them, various types of drag-fitted bottles were also put out. The journeys accomplished are discussed, and the striking differences as between year and year in the case of the common surface floaters, and as between the different types in the same year, are commented upon in the light of the prevailing winds. An inter-relationship of great simplicity is deduced between wind speed and the rate of travel of simple surface floating bottles up-Channel and across the North Sea from the results of experiments carried out in four different summers.

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Determinacy of fecundity in sole (Solea solea) from the Bristol Channel

Journal of the Marine Biological Association of the United Kingdom ◽

10.1017/s0025315400059075 ◽

1990 ◽

Vol 70 (4) ◽

pp. 803-813 ◽

Cited By ~ 21

Author(s):

J. W. Horwood ◽

M. Greer Walker

Keyword(s):

Bay Of Biscay ◽

English Channel ◽

Potential Fecundity ◽

Frequency Distributions ◽

The North ◽

Size Frequency ◽

Solea Solea ◽

The North Sea ◽

The Common ◽

Common Sole

Ovaries of the common sole (Solea solea (Linnaeus)) were collected prior to, or at the beginning of, spawning from the spawning grounds in the Bristol Channel. Size frequency distributions of oocytes over 100 μm are presented. They clearly show a break in the size frequency distributions, at about 170 μm, indicating that the production of new oocytes to be spawned that season had ceased. It indicates that the sole is a determinate spawner and that, at least for this population, an annual potential fecundity can be measured. Estimated annual fecundity at length of Bristol Channel sole is calculated, and values are compared with those found for sole from the North Sea, eastern English Channel and the Bay of Biscay.

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On tho proportions of the prevailing winds, the mean temperature, and depth of rain in the climate of London, computed through a cycle of Eighteen Years, or periods of the Moon’s declination

Abstracts of the Papers Printed in the Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society of London ◽

10.1098/rspl.1837.0160 ◽

1843 ◽

Vol 4 ◽

pp. 300-300

Keyword(s):

The Moon ◽

Fair Weather ◽

North West ◽

West Wind ◽

North East ◽

East Wind ◽

The North ◽

The Common ◽

The Mean ◽

Solar Influence

In this paper the author investigates the periodical variations of the winds, rain and temperature, corresponding to the conditions of the moon’s declination, in a manner similar to that he has already followed in the case of the barometrical variations, on a period of years extending from 1815 to 1832 inclusive. In each case he gives tables of the average quantities for each week, at the middle of which the moon is in the equator, or else has either attained its maximum north or south declination. He thus finds that a north-east wind is most promoted by the constant solar influence which causes it, when the moon is about the equator, going from north to south; that a south-east wind, in like manner, prevails most when the moon is proceeding to acquire a southern declination ; that winds from the south and west blow more when the moon is in her mean degrees of declination, going either way, than with a full north or south declination ; and that a north-west wind, the common summer and fair weather wind of the climate, affects, in like manner, the mean declination, in either direction, in preference to the north or south, and most when the moon is coming north. He finds the average annual depth of rain, falling in the neighbourhood of London, is 25’17 inches.

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7000 years of paleostorm activity in the NW Mediterranean Sea in response to Holocene climate events

Quaternary Research ◽

10.1016/j.yqres.2011.09.002 ◽

2012 ◽

Vol 77 (1) ◽

pp. 1-11 ◽

Cited By ~ 103

Author(s):

Pierre Sabatier ◽

Laurent Dezileau ◽

Christophe Colin ◽

Louis Briqueu ◽

Frédéric Bouchette ◽

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Keyword(s):

Mediterranean Sea ◽

North Atlantic ◽

Clay Mineralogy ◽

Mediterranean Coast ◽

Ice Age ◽

Storm Activity ◽

The North ◽

Nw Mediterranean ◽

The North Atlantic ◽

Nw Mediterranean Sea

A high-resolution record of paleostorm events along the French Mediterranean coast over the past 7000 years was established from a lagoonal sediment core in the Gulf of Lions. Integrating grain size, faunal analysis, clay mineralogy and geochemistry data with a chronology derived from radiocarbon dating, we recorded seven periods of increased storm activity at 6300–6100, 5650–5400, 4400–4050, 3650–3200, 2800–2600, 1950–1400 and 400–50 cal yr BP (in the Little Ice Age). In contrast, our results show that the Medieval Climate Anomaly (1150–650 cal yr BP) was characterised by low storm activity.The evidence for high storm activity in the NW Mediterranean Sea is in agreement with the changes in coastal hydrodynamics observed over the Eastern North Atlantic and seems to correspond to Holocene cooling in the North Atlantic. Periods of low SSTs there may have led to a stronger meridional temperature gradient and a southward migration of the westerlies. We hypothesise that the increase in storm activity during Holocene cold events over the North Atlantic and Mediterranean regions was probably due to an increase in the thermal gradient that led to an enhanced lower tropospheric baroclinicity over a large Central Atlantic-European domain.

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