Examples of Strait of Sicily in a sentence
The Ion- ian is connected to the WMED through the narrow Strait of Messina, a micro-sec- tor that harbours a wealth of biogeograph- ic peculiarities, including Pliocene Atlantic remnants and local endemisms (FREDJ & GIACCONE, 1995), and the larger Strait of Sicily, the meeting point of native Western and Eastern Mediterranean species (BIANCHI, 2007), as well as of aliens of either Atlantic or Indo-Pacific origin (COLL et al., 2010).
POR (1990) defined the geographical limits to the expansion of Red Sea immigrants in the Mediterranean as the ‘Anti-Psara line’ to the north (Anti-Psara being an island in the Aegean) and the Strait of Sicily to the west: these boundaries match the 15 ÆC surface isotherm for February (BIANCHI, 2007).
J.: Strait of Sicily water masses, Dynamics of Atmo- sphere and Oceans, 29, 437–469, 1999.
Rullkötter, Geochemistry of sediments from theconnection between the western and the eastern Mediterranean Sea (Strait of Sicily, ODP Site 963), Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology 190 (2003), pp.
In October 2013, Italy began a similar operation to patrol the Strait of Sicily and the southern Mediterranean following the death of more than 350 African refugees off the Italian island of Lampedusa.
In southern Italy, the species is successfully established in the Strait of Sicily (Azzurro & Andaloro, 2004); a single specimen was re- corded in the southern Tyrrhenian Sea in 2004 (Castriota & Andaloro, 2008) and another specimen in the Strait of Messina in 2015 (Cavallaro et al., 2016).On November 5th 2016, two specimens of S.
The Mediterranean Sea is composed mainly of two nearly equal size basins, the Western and the Eastern ones, connected by the relatively shallow Strait of Sicily (sill depth ~ 500 m).
This figure is available in colour online at wileyonlinelibrary.com/journal/qj across the Strait of Sicily and the spatial extent of the positive CAPE area, with larger CAPE values for ARPA and ECMA.
At 1200 UTC on 25 September, all the forecasts show an area of low static stability at 450 hPa across the Strait of Sicily overlapping a region of positive convective available potential energy (not shown).
Features of dominant mesoscale variability, circulation patterns and dynamics in the Strait of Sicily.