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Tidal Currents and Transient Phenomena in the Strait of Messina: a Review

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The strait of Messina, separating Sicily from the Italian peninsula, has been studied since Homer’s times. Scientists have always been fascinated by its strong currents generated by the opposition of tidal phase between the two contiguous Tyrrhenian and Ionian basins. Tidal barotropic and baroclinic currents, up to 2 m/s, transient barotropic eddies and nonlinear wave trains as detected from remote and in situ observations and in the light of numerical models, are here analyzed and discussed.

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  1. Dipartimento di Fisica, Università degli Studi di Roma ”La Sapienza”, P.le A. Moro, 2, 00185, Rome, Italy

    F. Bignami

  2. INFN, Dipartimento di Fiaica, Università degli Studi di Roma ”La Sapienza”, P.le A. Moro, 2, 00185, Rome, Italy

    E. Salusti

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Bignami, F., Salusti, E. (1990). Tidal Currents and Transient Phenomena in the Strait of Messina: a Review. In: Pratt, L.J. (eds) The Physical Oceanography of Sea Straits. NATO ASI Series, vol 318. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-009-0677-8_4

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