• Atlantic-Origin Overflow Water in the East Greenland Current 

      Håvik, Lisbeth; Almansi, Mattia; Våge, Kjetil; Haine, Thomas W.N. (Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2019)
      Dense water masses transported southward along the east coast of Greenland in the East Greenland Current (EGC) form the largest contribution to the Denmark Strait Overflow. When exiting Denmark Strait these dense water ...
    • A combined stokes drift profile under swell and wind sea 

      Breivik, Øyvind; Christensen, Kai Håkon (Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2020)
      A combined directional Stokes drift profile for swell and wind sea is presented. The profile can be used to calculate the shear under crossing seas and as such is relevant for Langmuir turbulence and Stokes–Coriolis forcing, ...
    • Data availability principles and practice 

      Smith, J. A.; Cessi, P.; Fer, Ilker; Foltz, G.; Fox-Kemper, Baylor; Heywood, Karen; Jones, N.; Klymak, Jody; Lacasce, Joseph Henry (Journal article, 2020)
    • The dissipation of kinetic energy in the Lofoten Basin Eddy 

      Fer, Ilker; Bosse, Anthony; Ferron, Bruno; Bouruet-Aubertot, Pascale (Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2018-06)
      Ocean microstructure, current, and hydrography observations from June 2016 are used to characterize the turbulence structure of the Lofoten Basin eddy (LBE), a long-lived anticyclone in the Norwegian Sea. The LBE had an ...
    • Dissipation of turbulent kinetic energy inferred from Seagliders: an application to the eastern Nordic Seas overflows 

      Beaird, Nicholas; Fer, Ilker; Rhines, Peter B.; Eriksen, Charles (Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2012-12)
      Turbulent mixing is an important process controlling the descent rate, water mass modification, and volume transport augmentation due to entrainment in the dense overflows across the Greenland–Scotland Ridge. These overflows, ...
    • The dynamics of a barotropic current impinging on an ice front 

      Steiger, Nadine; Darelius, Elin Maria K.; Kimura, S; Patmore, Ryan Declan; Wåhlin, A. K. (Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2022)
      The vertical front of ice shelves represents a topographic barrier for barotropic currents that transport a considerable amount of heat toward the ice shelves. The blocking effect of the ice front on barotropic currents ...
    • The Emergence of the North Icelandic Jet and Its Evolution from Northeast Iceland to Denmark Strait 

      Semper, Stefanie; Våge, Kjetil; Pickart, Robert S.; Valdimarsson, Hedinn; Torres, Daniel J.; Jónsson, Steingrímur (Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2019)
      The North Icelandic Jet (NIJ) is an important source of dense water to the overflow plume passing through Denmark Strait. The properties, structure, and transport of the NIJ are investigated for the first time along its ...
    • Export of ice sheet meltwater from Upernavik fjord, West Greenland 

      Muilwijk, Morven; Straneo, Fiammetta; Slater, Donald A.; Smedsrud, Lars Henrik; Holte, James; Wood, Michael; Andresen, Camilla S.; Harden, Ben (Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2022)
      Meltwater from Greenland is an important freshwater source for the North Atlantic Ocean, released into the ocean at the head of fjords in the form of runoff, submarine melt, and icebergs. The meltwater release gives rise ...
    • The Generation of Linear and Nonlinear Internal Waves Forced by Subinertial Tides over the Yermak Plateau, Arctic Ocean 

      Urbancic, Gabin; Lamb, Kevin G.; Fer, Ilker; Padman, Laurie (Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2022)
      The propagation of internal waves (IWs) of tidal frequency is inhibited poleward of the critical latitude, where the tidal frequency is equal to the Coriolis frequency (f). These subinertial IWs may propagate in the presence ...
    • How much arctic fresh water participates in the subpolar overturning circulation? 

      Le Bras, Isabela; Straneo, Fiamma; Muilwijk, Morven; Smedsrud, Lars Henrik; Li, Feili; Susan Lozier, Lozier; Penny Holliday, Holliday (Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2021)
      Fresh Arctic waters flowing into the Atlantic are thought to have two primary fates. They may be mixed into the deep ocean as part of the overturning circulation, or flow alongside regions of deep water formation without ...
    • The Impact of Cold-Air Outbreaks and Oceanic Lateral Fluxes on Dense-Water Formation in the Greenland Sea from a 10-Year Moored Record (1999–2009) 

      Svingen, Kristin; Brakstad, Ailin; Våge, Kjetil; Von Appen, Wilken-Jon; Papritz, Lukas (Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2023)
      The Greenland Sea produces a significant portion of the dense water from the Nordic seas that supplies the lower limb of the Atlantic meridional overturning circulation. Here, we use a continuous 10-yr hydrographic record ...
    • Loop current variability as trigger of coherent gulf stream transport anomalies 

      Hirschi, Joël J.-M.; Frajka-Williams, Eleanor; Blaker, Adam T; Sinha, Bablu; Coward, Andrew; Hyder, Pat; Biastoch, Arne; Böning, Claus; Barnier, Bernard; Penduff, Thierry; Garcia, Ixetl; Fransner, Filippa; Madec, Gurvan (Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2019)
      Satellite observations and output from a high-resolution ocean model are used to investigate how the Loop Current in the Gulf of Mexico affects the Gulf Stream transport through the Florida Straits. We find that the expansion ...
    • Mechanisms of offshore solid and liquid freshwater flux from the East Greenland Current 

      Spall, Michael A.; Semper, Stefanie; Våge, Kjetil (Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2024)
      The mechanisms that control the export of freshwater from the East Greenland Current, in both liquid and solid form, are explored using an idealized numerical model and scaling theory. A regional, coupled ocean–sea ice ...
    • Near-inertial mixing in the central Arctic Ocean 

      Fer, Ilker (Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2014-08)
      Observations were made in April 2007 of horizontal currents, hydrography, and shear microstructure in the upper 500 m from a drifting ice camp in the central Arctic Ocean. An approximately 4-day-long time series, collected ...
    • On the Dynamics and Water Mass Transformation of a Boundary Current Connecting Alpha and Beta Oceans 

      Lambert, Erwin; Eldevik, Tor; Spall, Michael A. (Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2018-10-19)
      A subpolar marginal sea, like the Nordic seas, is a transition zone between the temperature-stratified subtropics (the alpha ocean) and the salinity-stratified polar regions (the beta ocean). An inflow of Atlantic Water ...
    • Rapid response of the Norwegian Atlantic Slope Current to wind forcing 

      Brown, Nicola; Mauritzen, Cecilie; Li, Camille; Madonna, Erica; Isachsen, Pål Erik; Lacasce, Joseph Henry (Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2023)
      We explore drivers of variability in the Norwegian Atlantic Slope Current, which carries relatively warm Atlantic Water toward the Barents Sea and Arctic Ocean, using Copernicus Marine Environment Monitoring Service (CMEMS) ...
    • Turbulent upper-ocean mixing affected by meltwater layers during Arctic summer 

      Randelhoff, Achim; Fer, Ilker; Sundfjord, Arild (Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2017-04)
      Every summer, intense sea ice melt around the margins of the Arctic pack ice leads to a stratified surface layer, potentially without a traditional surface mixed layer. The associated strengthening of near-surface ...
    • Variability and mixing of the Filchner overflow plume on the continental slope,Weddell Sea 

      Daae, Kjersti; Fer, Ilker; Darelius, Elin Maria K. (Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2019-01)
      A large fraction of Antarctic Bottom Water is produced in the Weddell Sea, through mixing between the cold and dense shelf water masses and the warm and saline off-shelf water. We present observations of the dense Filchner ...
    • Vertical Convergence of Turbulent and Double-Diffusive Heat Flux Drives Warming and Erosion of Antarctic Winter Water in Summer 

      Giddy, I.S.; Fer, Ilker; Swart, Sebastiaan; Nicholson, S.-A. (Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2023)
      The seasonal warming of Antarctic Winter Water (WW) is a key process that occurs along the path of deep water transformation to intermediate waters. These intermediate waters then enter the upper branch of the circumpolar ...
    • Water mass transformation in the Greenland Sea during the period 1986-2016 

      Brakstad, Ailin; Våge, Kjetil; Håvik, Lisbeth; Moore, G.W.K. (Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2019-01)
      Hydrographic measurements from ships, autonomous profiling floats, and instrumented seals over the period 1986–2016 are used to examine the temporal variability in open-ocean convection in the Greenland Sea during winter. ...