Along major Eastern Boundary Upwelling Systems (EBUS) local and seasonal changes in the equatorward wind stress (e.g. Ekman Upwelling) and cross-shore gradients of the wind (e.g. Ekman Pumping) are the main drivers of the ...

This thesis work analyses near-surface atmospheric and oceanographic parameters measured in the Tropical Pacific Ocean by the TAO array. The TAO array comprises almost 70 moored buoys retrieving high-frequency data ...

The influence of in-port ships emissions to atmospheric pollutants concentration was investigated in the two Adriatic port-cities of Brindisi and Venice, integrating experimental data, modeling and emission inventories. ...

The Atlantic Multidecadal Variability (AMV) is a low-frequency mode of variability, characterized by a coherent pattern of oscillatory variations in North Atlantic Sea Surface Temperature. It is a natural internal mode ...

The sea ice cover in the Arctic Ocean has experienced an ongoing loss in volume and extent in the last decades with recognised consequences for the northern hemisphere atmospheric circulation. According to climate ...

Il mar Mediterraneo è spesso considerato un oceano in miniatura poiché è una delle poche regioni al mondo dove avvengono eventi di convezione oceanica profonda che innescano la sua circolazione termoalina. La variabilità ...

Continental shelves cover less than 5% of the global ocean, but play a crucial role in marine biogeochemical cycling, since they account for 30% of primary production, 80% of organic matter burial, 50% of marine ...

Surface vorticity in the oceans is usually driven by wind dynamics. However, in semi-enclosed and stratified basins - like the Mediterranean - internal ocean processes may dominate the development of surface as well as ...

Obiettivo della tesi è presentare lo sviluppo di una metodologia per l’analisi della distribuzione degli inquinanti all’interno del pennacchio uscente da una ciminiera. Lo studio - dopo una presentazione generale dell’atmosfera, ...

The main objective of this thesis is to analyze the water mass variability and the circulation of the East Greenland boundary current system on the SE continental shelf and to properly represent the shelf/fjord exchange ...