Laurent M. Chérubin, Nuno Serra, Isabel Ambar,
... aligned current meter moorings located west of the Portimão Canyon. Periodically, an XBT line was performed during ... period of the current meter measurements, upstream of Portimão Canyon; it preceded the release of RAFOS floats ... or anticyclone) passing through or formed in the Portimão Canyon. The regular oscillation of the currents are ... of the meddies observed in the vicinity of Portimão Canyon and Cape St. Vincent. The waves resonant ...
Tópico(s): Geological formations and processes
2003 - American Geophysical Union | Journal of Geophysical Research Atmospheres
Elodie Marchès, Thierry Mulder, Michel Cremer, Cédric Bonnel, Vincent Hanquiez, E. Gonthier, Pascal Lécroart,
... incising the slope with a north-south orientation (Portimão Canyon). High-resolution seismic and bathymetry interpretation shows ... channel (Alvarez Cabral). On the western side of Portimão Canyon, the MOW energy is lower, preventing moat channel erosion. Only flat and thin drift develops (Portimão and Lagos Drifts) with slow aggradation and a ... temperature-density measurements showing that MOW flows down Portimão Canyon. The canyon is responsible for the deviation ...
Tópico(s): Geology and Paleoclimatology Research
2007 - Elsevier BV | Marine Geology
Marta Neres, Pedro Terrinha, Susana Custódio, Sónia Silva, Joaquim Luís, J. M. Miranda,
... stands out in the region of the Guadalquivir-Portimão Banks, Gulf of Cadiz, off SW Iberia. The ... large magmatic body intruded beneath the Guadalquivir and Portimão Banks, the Guadalquivir-Portimão intrusion. We perform 3D inversion of magnetic data ... the observed data. These sections show the Guadalquivir-Portimão intrusion emplaced along a lithospheric decollement within the ... alkaline intrusions, it is likely that the Guadalquivir-Portimão intrusion represents the southernmost expression of the Late ...
Tópico(s): Geological and Geochemical Analysis
2018 - Elsevier BV | Tectonophysics
Pedro Silva, Cristina Roque, Teresa Drago, A. Belén, Bernard Henry, E. Gemma, Ana Lopes, N. López-González, David Casas, Filipa Naughton, J.T. Vázquez,
... deposits (MMD) and the associated deformation in the Portimão Bank (Gulf of Cadiz, offshore SW Iberia). Two ... km length) related to landslides, more prominent at Portimão Bank's southern flank. At small-scale (cm) ... column. For last, geochronology and the morphology of Portimão seamount are discussed in order to constraint the ...
Tópico(s): earthquake and tectonic studies
2019 - Elsevier BV | Marine Geology
Isabel Ambar, Nuno Serra, F. Neves, María Teresa Ferreira,
... detailed field survey in the region around the Portimão Canyon, which constitutes the first large canyon that ... m) and, in the region close to the Portimão Canyon, a core with higher density than the ... at three sites off the Portuguese coast: in Portimão Canyon, off Cape St. Vincent and in the ...
Tópico(s): Ocean Waves and Remote Sensing
2007 - Elsevier BV | Journal of Marine Systems
Nuno Serra, Isabel Ambar, Rolf H. Käse,
... cyclones in the region just south of the Portimão Canyon. The evolution of these structures is studied ... of the MW vortices in the region from Portimão Canyon to the Estremadura Promontory are investigated using ... as the generation of baroclinic dipoles downstream of Portimão Canyon. The role of the bottom topography in ...
Tópico(s): Tropical and Extratropical Cyclones Research
2005 - Elsevier BV | Deep Sea Research Part II Topical Studies in Oceanography
Raquel Faria de Deus, José António Tenedório,
... precision LULC thematic maps for the municipality of Portimão (Algarve region), Portugal. Several Geographic Information System (GIS)- ... such LULC change trajectories. The findings show that Portimão has been experiencing complex LULC changes. Nearly 52% ... that the pattern of LULC change trajectories in Portimão municipality has been heading towards unsustainability.
Tópico(s): Remote Sensing and Land Use
2021 - Multidisciplinary Digital Publishing Institute | Sustainability
Markus H. Forst, Thomas C. Brachert, João Pais,
... scheme for the early to middle Miocene Lagos-Portimao Formation of central Algarve, southern Portugal. The Lagos Portimao Formation of central Algarve is a 60 m ... outcrops within the stratigraphic context of the Lagos-Portimao Formation and to establish high resolution chronostratigraphic Sr- ...
Tópico(s): Paleontology and Stratigraphy of Fossils
2009 - | Ciências da Terra - Earth Sciences Journal
Maria Helena F. Marecos do Monte, D. D. Mara,
... a primary facultative pond receiving raw sewage (in Portimão) and a secondary pond receiving the effluent from ... as follows: 0.595 and 0.371 in Portimão, and 0.574 and 0.523 in Vidigueira. ...
Tópico(s): Irrigation Practices and Water Management
1987 - Pergamon Press | Water Science & Technology
Amy S. Bower, Nuno Serra, Isabel Ambar,
... an intermediate‐depth jet occurs as it enters Portimão Canyon south of Portugal due to rapidly steepening ... continuous vein of MW was also traceable from Portimão Canyon to Cape St. Vincent. The mean velocity ...
Tópico(s): Tropical and Extratropical Cyclones Research
2002 - American Geophysical Union | Journal of Geophysical Research Atmospheres
Miguel Telles Antunes, G. Bizon, Â. Nascimento, João Pais,
... the following units: a) Carbonate formation of Lagos-Portimao, of marine facies, ascribed to the Lower Miocene ( ... similar manifestations documented in Algarve (basanite of Figueira-Portimao, etc.) are established.
Tópico(s): Archaeological and Historical Studies
2008 - | Ciências da Terra - Earth Sciences Journal
Paulo Morais, Teresa C. Borges, Vera Carnall, Pedro Terrinha, Christopher A. Cooper, Richard A. Cooper,
... near the head and in the flanks inside Portimão canyon, down to 300 m. Observations showed variations ...
Tópico(s): Marine Bivalve and Aquaculture Studies
2007 - Wiley | Marine Ecology
Cristina Roque, Henrique Duarte, Pedro Terrinha, Vasco Valadares, João Noiva, Mário Cachão, Joana Ferreira, Paulo Legoinha, Nevio Zitellini,
... Lagos and Sagres drifts and three in the Portimão drift. A three-phased evolutionary model for the ... from the Late Miocene, mainly shaped by the Portimão, Lagos and Bartolomeu Dias canyons system; iii) the ...
Tópico(s): Geology and Paleoclimatology Research
2011 - Elsevier BV | Marine Geology
Irene Câmara Camacho, Elsa Caeiro, R. Ferro, Roberto Camacho, Rita Câmara, Agnieszka Grinn‐Gofroń, Matt Smith, Agnieszka Strzelczak, Carlos Nunes, Mário Morais‐Almeida,
... five mainland stations (Oporto, Coimbra, Lisbon, Évora and Portimão) and two insular stations [Funchal (Madeira archipelago) and ... southern mainland cities, e.g. Évora, Lisbon and Portimão, and lower in insular and littoral cities. There ...
Tópico(s): Indoor Air Quality and Microbial Exposure
2016 - Springer Science+Business Media | Aerobiologia
R. A. Forth, Dave Butcher, Rebecca A. Senior,
... problematic karstic cliffs around Lagos and east of Portimao. Geotechnical problems vary from toppling failure and rockfalls ... the Miocene calcarenites and Pleistocene sands east of Portimao. This latter area is the subject of this ...
Tópico(s): Landslides and related hazards
1999 - Elsevier BV | Engineering Geology
Ildefonso Armenteros Armenteros, Cristino J. Dabrio, Paulo Legoinha, José Ángel González Delgado, Antonio Miguel Martínez Graña, G. Alonso-Gavilán, Jorge Civis, João Pais,
Tópico(s): Geology and Paleoclimatology Research
2019 - Springer Science+Business Media | Facies
Manel Fernández, Montserrat Torné, Jaume Vergés, Emilio Casciello, Chiara Macchiavelli,
... highs coinciding with the Gorringe Bank, the Guadalquivir–Portimao Bank, and the Ronda/Beni–Bousera massifs, reflecting ... growing consensus that the Gorringe and the Guadalquivir–Portimao Banks resulted from tectonic inversion of hyperextended margin ...
Tópico(s): Geological and Geochemical Analysis
2019 - Multidisciplinary Digital Publishing Institute | Geosciences
M. J. Brogueira, G. Cabeçadas, Célia Gonçalves,
Cape St. Vincent and Portimão canyon, off southern Portugal, are known as sites of meddies formation. In September 1999 a meddy was identified centered at ... 8.54°W, on the eastern flank of Portimão canyon. In this work we describe and analyse ... the west, following the topographic irregularities associated with Portimão canyon.
Tópico(s): Marine and coastal plant biology
2004 - Elsevier BV | Continental Shelf Research
Elsa Pereira, Margarida Mascarenhas, Adão Flores, Gustavo Pires,
... of a nautical sports event portfolio (Kite Masters Portimao World Tour, Formula Windsurfing World Championship, Sailing Audi Medcup, Power Boats World Championship, Portimao Global Ocean Race, F1H2O World Championship) hosted in ... evolution of the dynamics in the Municipality of Portimao, in logic of transformative causality.
Tópico(s): Sports, Gender, and Society
2014 - | Journal of maritime research
Mariana Antunes, Pedro Lopes Da Cunha, Ana Paula G. Duarte, Eliane Pereira Mendonça,
... Alvor is a small estuary between Lagos and Portimão on the south coast of Portugal, 37°7′– ...
Tópico(s): Coastal and Marine Management
1988 - Wiley | Journal of Fish Biology
João Pais, Paulo Legoinha, H. Elderfield, Lígia Sousa, Mário Estevens,
... frame for the previously characterized units. The Lagos-Portimao Formation corresponds to deposits of temperate carbonate platform ...
Tópico(s): Geology and Paleoclimatology Research
2009 - | Ciências da Terra - Earth Sciences Journal
Elodie Marchès, Thierry Mulder, E. Gonthier, Michel Cremer, Vincent Hanquiez, Thierry Garlan, Pascal Lécroart,
... contourite drifts. This margin is dissected by the Portimao Canyon and three short channels that only incise ...
Tópico(s): Geological formations and processes
2009 - Elsevier BV | Sedimentary Geology
Tristan Salles, Elodie Marchès, Chris Dyt, Cedric M. Griffiths, Vincent Hanquiez, Thierry Mulder,
... and forms close to the ones observed on Portimão and Lagos Drifts. This study provides a process- ...
Tópico(s): Geology and Paleoclimatology Research
2009 - Elsevier BV | Sedimentary Geology
Thomas C. Brachert, Markus H. Forst, João Pais, Paulo Legoinha, John J. G. Reijmer,
... found in the Early to Mid-Miocene Lagos-Portimão Formation (Algarve, S-Portugal), which formed on a ...
Tópico(s): Geology and Paleoclimatology Research
2002 - Elsevier BV | Sedimentary Geology
G. Cabeçadas, M. J. Brogueira, Célia Gonçalves,
... apparently associated with the complex topography of the Portimão Canyon. The North Atlantic Central Water (NACW) and ...
Tópico(s): Marine Biology and Ecology Research
2002 - Elsevier BV | Deep Sea Research Part II Topical Studies in Oceanography
... The generation of two dipolar structures in the Portimão Canyon region also was observed with the float ...
Tópico(s): Ocean Waves and Remote Sensing
2002 - Elsevier BV | Deep Sea Research Part II Topical Studies in Oceanography
... tsunami risk map has recently been completed for Portimào concelho1 (i.e. county).
Tópico(s): Geology and Paleoclimatology Research
2008 - Taylor & Francis | Geography
Maria M. Bezerra, Delminda Moura, Óscar Ferreira, Rui Taborda,
... estudo, expõe principalmente a Formação Carbonatada de Lagos-Portimão, do Miocénico. Constitui excepção o sector entre as ...
Tópico(s): Aeolian processes and effects
2011 - Coastal Education and Research Foundation | Journal of Coastal Research
É. Quentel, Xavier Carton, Marc‐André Gutscher,
Hydrological and marine seismic data, collected in the Gulf of Cadiz (respectively in July 1999, 2000, 2001 and 2002, and in April 2000 and 2001) are analysed to reveal the various structures of Mediterranean Water (MW). Both the hydrological and seismic data clearly identify the MW undercurrents on the Iberian slope, detached MW eddies (meddies and a cyclone) and smaller fragments of MW (filaments and small eddies). Seismic reflectivity and synthetic reflectivity computed from hydrology, indicate that ...
Tópico(s): Karst Systems and Hydrogeology
2011 - Scientific Research Publishing | International Journal of Geosciences
Thierry Mulder, Pascal Lécroart, Vincent Hanquiez, Elodie Marchès, E. Gonthier, J.-C. Guedes, Emmanuelle Thiébot, B. Jaaidi, N. H. Kenyon, M. Voisset, C. M. Morcillo Perez, M. Sayago, Y. Fuchey, Stéphane Bujan,
... valleys with erosive flanks are observed. Only the Portimao Canyon is presently connected to the continental shelf. ...
Tópico(s): Geology and Paleoclimatology Research
2006 - Springer Science+Business Media | Geo-Marine Letters