During the period 18-December-1994 to 20-April-1995, a multinational collaborative experiment was carried out in the NW Levantine Sea with main objective to study the Levantine Intermediate Water (LIW) formation process. During this POEm (Physical Oceanography of Eastern Mediterranean) coordinated experiment, the Rhodes Gyre area and the adjacent seas were visited by 5 research vessels that carried out intensive hydrological observations of high spatial resolution. The experiment was designed to study the three phases of the LIW formation process : a) the preconditioning, b) the formation and c) the spreading phase.
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