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dc.contributor.authorUllgren, Jenny
dc.contributor.authorDarelius, Elin Maria K.
dc.contributor.authorFer, Ilker
dc.date.accessioned2016-10-04T07:07:30Z
dc.date.available2016-10-04T07:07:30Z
dc.date.issued2016-03-15
dc.PublishedOcean Science 2016, 12:451-470eng
dc.identifier.issn1812-0792en_US
dc.identifier.urihttps://hdl.handle.net/1956/12898
dc.description.abstractOne-year long time series of current velocity and temperature from eight moorings deployed in the Faroe Bank Channel (FBC) are analysed to describe the structure and variability of the dense overflow plume on daily to seasonal timescales. Mooring arrays were deployed in two sections: located 25 km downstream of the main sill, in the channel that geographically confines the overflow plume at both edges (section C), and 60 km further downstream, over the slope (section S). At section C, the average volume transport of overflow waters ( < 3 °C) from the Nordic Seas towards the Iceland Basin was 1.3 ±  0.3 Sv; at section S, transport of modified overflow water ( < 6 °C) was 1.7  ±  0.7 Sv. The volume transport through the slope section was dominated by mesoscale variability at 3–5-day timescales. A simplified view of along-path entrainment of a gravity current may not be accurate for the FBC overflow. As the plume proceeds into the stratified ambient water, there is substantial detrainment from the deeper layer (bounded by the 3 °C isotherm), of comparable magnitude to the entrainment into the interfacial layer (between the 3 and 6 °C isotherms). A time series of gradient Richardson numbers suggests a quiescent plume core capped by turbulent near bottom and interfacial layers in the channel. At section S, in contrast, the entire overflow plume is turbulent. Based on a two-layer heat budget constructed for the overflow, time mean vertical diffusivities across the top of the bottom layer and across the interfacial layer were (30  ±  15) × 10−4 and (120  ±  43) × 10−4  m2 s−1, respectively.en_US
dc.language.isoengeng
dc.publisherCopernicus Publicationsen_US
dc.rightsAttribution CC BYeng
dc.rights.urihttp://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/eng
dc.titleVolume transport and mixing of the cold water overflow downstream of the Faroe Bank Channel from one year of moored measurementsen_US
dc.typePeer reviewed
dc.typeJournal article
dc.date.updated2016-09-13T09:15:40Z
dc.description.versionpublishedVersionen_US
dc.rights.holderCopyright 2016 the authorsen_US
dc.identifier.doihttps://doi.org/10.5194/os-12-451-2016
dc.identifier.cristin1266089
dc.relation.projectNorges forskningsråd: 204867


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