Dynamics and variability of transports in the Nordic Seas overflows

• Main Author: Macrander, Annecke
• Format: Conference Object
• Language: unknown
• Published: 2007
• Subjects: Faroe Bank; Greenland; Denmark Strait; Greenland-Scotland Ridge; Iceland; Nordic Seas; North Atlantic Deep Water; North Atlantic
• Online Access: https://epic.awi.de/id/eprint/17706/; https://hdl.handle.net/10013/epic.28032

The dense overflows across the Greenland Scotland Ridge are an important contribution to the deep branch of the Atlantic Meridional Overturning Circulation. The dynamics of the overflows has been extensively studied in the last 50 years, and revealed the importance of hydraulic control mechanisms an...