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Abstract The objective of this work is to study and The area of study, which is the Levantine Sea, lies
analysis the water mass formation in the Levantine between longitudes 240E and 360E and latitudes 300N and
Sea. Convection, salinity and evaporation in the 400N, as shown in Fig. 1.
Eastern Mediterranean were studied for the coldest
year (1964) and the hottest year (1991). The
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oceanographic data are selected from the World Ocean
Atlas and http://ingrid.ldeo.Columbia.edu/ site. Results 37
Turkey
indicate that for the coldest year (1964), the maximum
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amount of evaporation is observed in August - Rhodes Cyprus
September in the vicinity of Crete Island. The error of 35
salinity ranged between (0 - 0.25 ) in the west of Crete Syria
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Cyprus and close to Syria. The depth of convection was
detected in the west of Cyprus down to a depth about 33
Levantine Sea
(320 m). While for the hottest year (1991), the
maximum amount of evaporation is in August - 32
Libya
Egypt
September near by Syria. The error of salinity ranged 31
between (0.05 - 0.3 ) near the Egyptian coast and 24 25 26 27 28 29 30 31 32 33 34 35 36
Keywords: Levantine Sea; water mass; convection; water 2. MATERIALS AND METHODS
temperature; salinity; evaporation; ERS-1.
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Evaporation analysis:
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Salinity analysis:
Figure 2. Error of Salinity for the coldest year (1964)
{Jan., Feb., Mar. and Apr.}.
Said (1985) suggested that in a cold winter the formation
of Levantine intermediate water mass occurs nearly
everywhere in the Levantine Sea excepting the southern 40
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the Eastern Mediterranean were studied in coldest year
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1964 and the hottest year 1991. The oceanographic data
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http://ingrid.ldeo.Columbia.edu/ site. Water temperature
and salinity data have been taken from 50 hydographic
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collected from ERS-1 satellite. The maximum amount of
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evaporation for the coldest year (1964) was observed in
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18 20 22 24 26 28 30 32 34 36 August in the front of Crete Island and minimum amount
was detected in February in the same area. While, for the
hottest year (1991), the maximum amount of evaporation
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1991
was observed in August in front of Syria.
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