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Long term changes in deep Adriatic water masses obtained by Self-Organising Maps analysis

A novel approach in detecting and determining water mass changes is documented in the paper, based on a Self-Organising Maps (SOM) method. We used the method to extract and classify long-term variability (1957-2009) of temperature, salinity, dissolved oxygen and nutrients at a single station in the deep South Adriatic Pit. The extracted vertical profile patterns and their variability are associated with the known Adriatic water masses. We also tested the capacity of the method to recognize the masses by changing the dimensions of SOM nodes and by varying the number of input parameters.

Adriatic Sea; Deep Waters; Time Series

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