Addressing the need for clear communication in Mediterranean oceanography, this study presents a revised and comprehensive catalogue of water mass acronyms. Although there is no universal set of standard rules for assigning acronyms to water masses, as these can vary among different research groups, regions, or scientific communities, scientists generally aim for clarity and consistency when naming and abbreviating water masse...

The in-situ data gathered over two decades since mid-1990s in the South-Eastern Levantine Basin from 34 hydrographic campaigns and from 35 bi-weekly and monthly Voluntary Observing Ships (VOS) transects, after the pioneering POEM cruises, have provided insight on the dominant meso-scale coherent circulation features of this sub-basin. The most pronounced feature, the anticyclonic Cyprus Eddy, migrates over the broad region of...

Planktonic food webs were studied contemporaneously in a mesoscale cyclonic (upwelling, ∼ 13 months old) and an anticyclonic (downwelling, ∼ 2 months old) eddy as well as in an uninfluenced background situation in the oligotrophic southeastern Mediterranean Sea (SEMS) during late summer 2018. We show that integrated nutrient concentrations were higher in the cyclone compared to the anticyclone or the background stations by 2–1...

The high variability of coastal waters together with the growing need for assessing the state of the marine coastal ecosystem, require continuous monitoring at exceptional resolution and quality, especially during the Anthropocene changing seas. We perform a comprehensive analysis of a decadal (March 2011 to June 2021) thermohaline variability of the East Levantine Basin (LB) coastal waters (continuous measurements), its predo...

Long-term trends in oxygen, salinity, and nutrients were followed in the Southeastern Mediterranean (SEMS) deep waters from 2002 to 2020. Results show a net decrease in oxygen since 2008 of −0.5 ± 0.1 μmol kg −1 yr −1 in the bathypelagic depths (1,200–2,000 m). Multiannual variability in oxygen levels superimposed this trend, and is likely associated with variations in thermohaline fluxes. The 2020 mean oxygen concentration of...

Internal waves in stratified lakes are affected by the seasonally varying stratification and the wind forcing. We studied the seasonal dynamics of internal waves by means of high‐resolution observations and model simulations for the Dead Sea. A two‐layer hydrostatic model provided high correlations between measured thermocline depth and the lake level oscillations. Seasonally, the amplitude of the thermocline fluctuations were...