Fig. 1.

Surface water currents around Gargano area as measured by HF radar. In the left picture, a boundary current flowing south along the Italian coast and detaching from the Gargano Cape, and an anticyclonic recirculation in the interior of the Gulf are visible. In the right picture, previous typical pattern was disrupted and reversed as function of wind. In particular, Scirocco wind from the south can reverse the boundary current, inducing a northern flow