The effect of wind-stress over the Eastern Mediterranean on deep-water formation in the Adriatic Sea

We investigate the effect of interannual variability of the wind-stress over the Eastern Mediterranean on Adriatic Deep Water (ADW) formation using an oceanic general circulation model of the Mediterranean Sea driven by monthly ERA-Interim wind-stress of the years 1979–2014. This is done by using climatological annual cycle of the surface temperature and freshwater flux but interannually varying wind-stress.