Exchange of warming deep waters across Fram Strait

• Main Authors: von Appen, Wilken-Jon, Schauer, Ursula, Somavilla, Raquel, Bauerfeind, Eduard, Beszczynska-Möller, Agnieszka
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: unknown
• Published: PERGAMON-ELSEVIER SCIENCE LTD 2015
• Subjects: Arctic Ocean; Fram Strait; Greenland; Greenland Sea; Nordic Seas; Norwegian Sea; Svalbard
• Online Access: https://epic.awi.de/id/eprint/38252/; https://epic.awi.de/id/eprint/38252/2/vonAppen_DSR_2015.pdf; https://hdl.handle.net/10013/epic.45717; https://hdl.handle.net/10013/epic.45717.d002

Current meters measured temperature and velocity on 12 moorings from 1997 to 2014 in the deep Fram Strait between Svalbard and Greenland at the only deep passage from the Nordic Seas to the Arctic Ocean. The sill depth in Fram Strait is 2545 m. The observed temperatures vary between the colder Green...