The East Greenland Spill Jet as an important component of the Atlantic Meridional Overturning Circulation

• Published in: Deep Sea Research Part I: Oceanographic Research Papers
• Main Authors: von Appen, Wilken-Jon, Koszalka, Inga M., Pickart, Robert S., Haine, Thomas W.N., Mastropole, Dana, Magaldi, Marcello G., Valdimarsson, Héðinn, Girton, James, Jochumsen, Kerstin, Krahmann, Gerd
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: unknown
• Published: PERGAMON-ELSEVIER SCIENCE LTD 2014
• Subjects: Greenland; Irminger Sea; Denmark Strait; East Greenland
• Online Access: https://epic.awi.de/id/eprint/36051/; https://epic.awi.de/id/eprint/36051/1/vonAppen_et_al_DSRI_2014b_accepted.pdf; http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0967063714001022; https://hdl.handle.net/10013/epic.43939; https://hdl.handle.net/10013/epic.43939.d001

The recently discovered East Greenland Spill Jet is a bottom-intensified current on the upper continental slope south of Denmark Strait, transporting intermediate density water equatorward. Until now the Spill Jet has only been observed with limited summertime measurements from ships. Here we presen...