The East Greenland Current and its impacts on the Nordic Seas: observed trends in the past decade
Abstract Rudels, B., Korhonen, M., Budéus, G., Beszczynska-Möller, A., Schauer, U., Nummelin, A., Quadfasel, D., and Valdimarsson, H. 2012. The East Greenland Current and its impacts on the Nordic Seas: observed trends in the past decade. – ICES Journal of Marine Science, 69: 841–851. For the past 3...
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croxfordunivpr:10.1093/icesjms/fss079 2024-06-23T07:49:10+00:00 The East Greenland Current and its impacts on the Nordic Seas: observed trends in the past decade Rudels, Bert Korhonen, Meri Budéus, Gereon Beszczynska-Möller, Agnieszka Schauer, Ursula Nummelin, Aleksi Quadfasel, Detlef Valdimarsson, Hed̄inn 2012 http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/icesjms/fss079 http://academic.oup.com/icesjms/article-pdf/69/5/841/29146702/fss079.pdf en eng Oxford University Press (OUP) ICES Journal of Marine Science volume 69, issue 5, page 841-851 ISSN 1095-9289 1054-3139 journal-article 2012 croxfordunivpr https://doi.org/10.1093/icesjms/fss079 2024-06-04T06:12:13Z Abstract Rudels, B., Korhonen, M., Budéus, G., Beszczynska-Möller, A., Schauer, U., Nummelin, A., Quadfasel, D., and Valdimarsson, H. 2012. The East Greenland Current and its impacts on the Nordic Seas: observed trends in the past decade. – ICES Journal of Marine Science, 69: 841–851. For the past 30 years, it has been known that dense waters are created in the Arctic Ocean. However, before the late 1980s, observations indicated that Arctic Ocean deep waters only modified the deep water in the Greenland Sea, which was still thought of as the major source of dense water. In the mid-1990s, this picture began to fade. The deep convection in the Greenland Sea weakened and only Arctic Intermediate Water was formed. A deep salinity maximum was reinforced and a temperature maximum emerged at mid-depth. The densities of the salinity and temperature maxima were those of the deep waters in the Arctic Ocean, and one possibility was that waters below the convection were ventilated by Arctic Ocean deep waters from the East Greenland Current. Between 1998 and 2010, the salinity and temperature of the deep water in the Greenland Sea increased, implying continuous input from the East Greenland Current. Water from the Greenland Sea advected to Fram Strait now has almost Arctic Ocean characteristics and cannot significantly change the outflowing Arctic Ocean waters by mixing in the East Greenland Current, leading to a more-rapid transformation of the deep Greenland Sea water column. Article in Journal/Newspaper Arctic Arctic Ocean East Greenland east greenland current Fram Strait Greenland Greenland Sea Nordic Seas Oxford University Press Arctic Arctic Ocean Greenland Korhonen ENVELOPE(28.850,28.850,65.950,65.950) ICES Journal of Marine Science 69 5 841 851 |
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Abstract Rudels, B., Korhonen, M., Budéus, G., Beszczynska-Möller, A., Schauer, U., Nummelin, A., Quadfasel, D., and Valdimarsson, H. 2012. The East Greenland Current and its impacts on the Nordic Seas: observed trends in the past decade. – ICES Journal of Marine Science, 69: 841–851. For the past 30 years, it has been known that dense waters are created in the Arctic Ocean. However, before the late 1980s, observations indicated that Arctic Ocean deep waters only modified the deep water in the Greenland Sea, which was still thought of as the major source of dense water. In the mid-1990s, this picture began to fade. The deep convection in the Greenland Sea weakened and only Arctic Intermediate Water was formed. A deep salinity maximum was reinforced and a temperature maximum emerged at mid-depth. The densities of the salinity and temperature maxima were those of the deep waters in the Arctic Ocean, and one possibility was that waters below the convection were ventilated by Arctic Ocean deep waters from the East Greenland Current. Between 1998 and 2010, the salinity and temperature of the deep water in the Greenland Sea increased, implying continuous input from the East Greenland Current. Water from the Greenland Sea advected to Fram Strait now has almost Arctic Ocean characteristics and cannot significantly change the outflowing Arctic Ocean waters by mixing in the East Greenland Current, leading to a more-rapid transformation of the deep Greenland Sea water column. |
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Rudels, Bert Korhonen, Meri Budéus, Gereon Beszczynska-Möller, Agnieszka Schauer, Ursula Nummelin, Aleksi Quadfasel, Detlef Valdimarsson, Hed̄inn |
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Rudels, Bert Korhonen, Meri Budéus, Gereon Beszczynska-Möller, Agnieszka Schauer, Ursula Nummelin, Aleksi Quadfasel, Detlef Valdimarsson, Hed̄inn The East Greenland Current and its impacts on the Nordic Seas: observed trends in the past decade |
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Rudels, Bert Korhonen, Meri Budéus, Gereon Beszczynska-Möller, Agnieszka Schauer, Ursula Nummelin, Aleksi Quadfasel, Detlef Valdimarsson, Hed̄inn |
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The East Greenland Current and its impacts on the Nordic Seas: observed trends in the past decade |
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The East Greenland Current and its impacts on the Nordic Seas: observed trends in the past decade |
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The East Greenland Current and its impacts on the Nordic Seas: observed trends in the past decade |
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The East Greenland Current and its impacts on the Nordic Seas: observed trends in the past decade |
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The East Greenland Current and its impacts on the Nordic Seas: observed trends in the past decade |
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east greenland current and its impacts on the nordic seas: observed trends in the past decade |
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