RT Journal Article
T1 On the role of the bay of Algeciras in the exchange across the Strait of Gibraltar.
A1 García-Lafuente, Jesús
A1 Sammartino, Simone
A1 Sánchez Garrido, José C.
A1 Naranjo, Cristina
K1 Mareas -  Algeciras (Bahía, Cádiz)
K1 Circulación oceánica - Algeciras (Bahía, Cádiz)
K1 Oceanografía - Modelos matemáticos
AB The role that the Algeciras Bay, a medium size embayment located in the eastern part of the Straitof Gibraltar, may have on the water exchange through the Strait and on other physical properties ofthe area has been numerically investigated using different configurations of a numerical model. Threedomains have been considered, the present configuration with the Bay and two other configurationsin which the Bay is suppressed either by filling the embayment, which produces a longer Strait, or byremoving the Gibraltar Rock and isthmus, which gives rise to a shorter Strait. Only little modificationsare produced in the mean properties, the shorter Strait increasing very slightly the mean exchange anddiminishing the cross-section averaged salinity of the inflow. The spatial pattern of semidiurnal tidalellipses is changed in the vicinity of the Bay, but other properties such as the minimum amplitude ofsemidiurnal M2 transport that occurs off the Bay in the Strait and that could be related to the presentconfiguration, remain unaltered. It is speculated that the main consequence of suppressing the Bayrelates to the export of primary production, as it acts out as a buffer of water with residence timeslong enough to sustain high levels of productivity.
PB Elsevier
YR 2019
FD 2019-04-27
LK https://hdl.handle.net/10630/29833
UL https://hdl.handle.net/10630/29833
LA eng
NO Jesús García Lafuente, Simone Sammartino, José C. Sánchez Garrido, Cristina Naranjo, On the role of the bay of algeciras in the exchange across the strait of Gibraltar, Regional Studies in Marine Science, Volume 29, 2019, 100620, ISSN 2352-4855, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.rsma.2019.100620
NO Política de acceso abierto tomada de: https://v2.sherpa.ac.uk/id/publication/35864
DS RIUMA. Repositorio Institucional de la Universidad de Málaga
RD 23 ene 2026