Abyssal warming in the Nordic Seas

• Main Authors: Dickson, R. R., Osterhus, S., Klages, Michael, Soltwedel, Thomas
• Format: Conference Object
• Language: unknown
• Published: 2012
• Subjects: Arctic; Arctic Ocean; Norwegian Sea; Lofoten; Greenland; Jan Mayen; Lofoten Basin; Fram Strait; Greenland Sea; Nordic Seas
• Online Access: https://epic.awi.de/id/eprint/25908/; https://hdl.handle.net/10013/epic.38840

Since Greenland Sea Deep Water (GSDW) is the coldest of the three local Deep Waters, Meincke & Rudels (1995) concluded that the sustained warming in the deep Greenland Sea from the early 1970s to the present was due to a progressive shift from vertical exchange (with the cool surface layers) to...