dc.contributor.author | Østerhus, Svein | eng |
dc.contributor.author | Turrell, William R. | eng |
dc.contributor.author | Jónsson, Steingrímur | eng |
dc.contributor.author | Hansen, Bogi | eng |
dc.date.accessioned | 2005-04-08T09:32:11Z | |
dc.date.available | 2005-04-08T09:32:11Z | |
dc.date.issued | 2005-04-07 | eng |
dc.Published | Geophysical Research Letters 2005 32 L07603 | en |
dc.identifier.issn | 0094-8276 | en_US |
dc.identifier.uri | https://hdl.handle.net/1956/631 | |
dc.description.abstract | The flow of warm and saline Atlantic water towards the Arctic crosses the Greenland-Scotland Ridge in three current branches. Since the mid 1990's, extensive monitoring with quasi-permanent moorings and regular CTD cruises has been in operation on three sections crossing the branches. Averaged over the years 1999 to 2001, values of volume, heat (relative to 0°C) and salt flux due to the total Atlantic inflow across the Greenland-Scotland Ridge into the Nordic Seas are estimated as 8.5 Sv (1 Sv = 106 m3·s−1), 313·1012 W, and 303·106 kg·s−1. In this period, the average temperature and salinity of the Atlantic inflow were 8.5°C and 35.25, respectively. Within the observational uncertainty, we do not find any significant seasonal variation of the volume flux, but a negative correlation between the inflow flux through the Faroe-Shetland Channel and through the other two gaps was indicated. | en_US |
dc.format.extent | 357456 bytes | eng |
dc.format.mimetype | application/pdf | eng |
dc.language.iso | eng | eng |
dc.publisher | American Geophysical Union | en_US |
dc.title | Measured volume, heat, and salt fluxes from the Atlantic to the Arctic Mediterranean | en_US |
dc.type | Journal article | |
dc.identifier.doi | https://doi.org/10.1029/2004gl022188 | |