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The Strait of Gibraltar, the link between the Atlantic Ocean and the Mediterranean Sea, plays a major role in the renovation of the Mediterranean water and in the dynamics of water masses in the Alboran Sea. Therefore, for the numerical simulation of the hydrodynamic processes that take place in the Alboran Sea a thorough knowledge and modelling of fluxes through the Strait is needed. This paper is devoted to the numerical simulation of hydrodynamical processes taking place in both the Strait of Gibraltar and the Alboran Sea. The main goal is to present the derivation of a multi-layer shallow water model and its application to this zone of the Mediterranean. This model takes into account Coriolis force, wind and bottom drag effects, interaction between two adjacent layers, etc… This has been developed from a shallow-water model developed at the University of Santiago de Compostela (see[2]).
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Castro, M.J., Macías, J., Parés, C. (1997). A Multi-Layer Shallow-Water Model. Applications to the Strait of Gibraltar and the Alboran Sea. In: Díaz, J.I. (eds) The Mathematics of Models for Climatology and Environment. NATO ASI Series, vol 48. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-60603-8_11
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