How rivers influence the Mediterranean dynamics?

Описание: Do rivers play a significant role in the ocean and marginal seas circulation and dynamics?
Do we need a fine representation of river release into regional ocean models?
Rivers are known to affect the coastal and the basin wide overturning circulation and dynamics.
The regional ocean models cannot solve the estuarine dynamics and they parameterize the river release in an oversimplified way. Doing this the water exchange into the estuaries, owing to the ocean water entrainment, is not represented.


The CMCC seminar “Estuarine dynamics for ocean modeling: the case studies of a fully stratified and a partially mixed estuary” held by CMCC Foundation researcher Giorgia Verri explores this topic while testing three different approaches to represent estuarine processes and develop an interface between estuarine dynamics and regional ocean models in order to represent river release in terms of runoff and salinity while developing coastal dynamics occurring at estuaries.

More information here:
http://www.cmcc.it/article/how-rivers...

Speaker: Giorgia Verri, Fondazione Centro Euro-Mediterraneo sui Cambiamenti Climatici (CMCC – OPA Division)

Discussant: Edoardo Bucchignani, Fondazione Centro Euro-Mediterraneo sui Cambiamenti Climatici (CMCC – REMHI Division)

Moderator: Silvia Torresan, Fondazione Centro Euro-Mediterraneo sui Cambiamenti Climatici (CMCC – RAAS Division)