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As mentioned in Chapter 1, the Adriatic Sea is subject to highly variable atmospheric forcing due to its land-locked position between the mountainous Balkans and the Italian Peninsula. As a result, the oceanographic properties of the Adriatic, e.g., its circulation and the distribution of its water masses, depend strongly on the characteristics of the air-sea fluxes, more specifically on the fluxes of momentum, heat and water at the air-sea interface. Details about these fluxes are given below, after a summary of the climatic wind conditions over the Adriatic basin.
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Poulain, PM., Raicich, F. (2001). Forcings. In: Cushman-Roisin, B., Gačić, M., Poulain, PM., Artegiani, A. (eds) Physical Oceanography of the Adriatic Sea. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-015-9819-4_2
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