Figure 1. The area representative of the Gulf of Lions DWF used
in this study is surrounded by the red line. The ocean model bathymetry
(in m) over the NWMed is also shown.
As representative of the GoL we
use the mixed patch area surrounded by the red line in Figure 1. Somot
et al., (2018) have verified that their results are not very sensitive
to the choice of the GoL domain if the continental shelf is avoided and
the region where open-sea deep convection occurs is included. The
selection of the DWF target area was performed using the mean winter MLD
for the 1976–2005 period. The mixed patch area is composed by the grid
points where the mean winter MLD is deeper than 1000 m, which
corresponds to the depth of WMDW prior to the convection (Waldman et al.
2017).