Sediment resuspension and transport processes during dense water cascading events along the continental margin of the southern Adriatic Sea (Mediterranean Sea)

The near-bottom nepheloid layer in the western margin of the Southern Adriatic Sea was monitored for 8-years by measurements acquired at two mooring sites. The two moorings, equipped with CTD probes and ADCPs, are located in the Bari Canyon and in an open slope sector along the Southern Adriatic Margin. These regions are of interest because affected by episodic dense shelf water cascading events whose dynamic has direct implications on deepwater morpho-dynamic, biogeochemical cycles and trophic networks. In this work, the sedimentation flux and its interdecadal dynamic is analysed examining in detail the sedimentary processes triggered by dense water flow through the analysis of the echo records of ADCPs.