Preliminary results of a numerical model of circulation using the density field in the eastern Mediterranean

Abstract

        A thermohaline circulation model in a baroclinic ocean is used to determine circulation at the surface, 50 m, 100 m, 300 m and 500 m. These levels are intended to represent the surface, intermediate and deep circulation patterns in the Eastern Mediterranean Sea. It is concluded that the general circulation from the surface to the baroclinic depth has the same cyclonic direction, is one-directional and that there is no reversed current in the deeper layers.