The Irminger Gyre: Circulation, convection, and interannual variability

• Published in: Deep Sea Research Part I: Oceanographic Research Papers
• Main Authors: Våge, Kjetil, Pickart, Robert S., Sarafanov, Artem, Knutsen, Øyvind, Mercier, Herlé, Lherminier, Pascale, Van Aken, Hendrik M., Meincke, Jens, Quadfasel, Detlef, Bacon, Sheldon
• Other Authors: Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution (WHOI), P.P. Shirshov Institute of Oceanology (SIO), Russian Academy of Sciences Moscow (RAS), SINTEF Ocean Space (SINTEF OCEAN), Stiftelsen for INdustriell og TEknisk Forskning Digital Trondheim (SINTEF Digital), Laboratoire de physique des océans (LPO), Institut de Recherche pour le Développement (IRD)-Institut Français de Recherche pour l'Exploitation de la Mer (IFREMER)-Université de Brest (UBO)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS), Royal Netherlands Institute for Sea Research (NIOZ), Institut für Meereskunde Hamburg, Universität Hamburg (UHH), National Oceanography Centre Southampton (NOC), University of Southampton
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: English
• Published: HAL CCSD 2011
• Subjects: Irminger Sea; Labrador Sea Water; Deep Western Boundary Current; Irminger Current; North Atlantic; Deep convection; [SDU.STU.OC]Sciences of the Universe [physics]/Earth Sciences/Oceanography; Labrador Sea
• Online Access: https://hal.archives-ouvertes.fr/hal-00650962; https://doi.org/10.1016/j.dsr.2011.03.001

International audience In this study 36 hydrographic transects occupied between 1991 and 2007 in the vicinity of the WOCE A1E/AR7E section are used to investigate various aspects of the Irminger Gyre, a narrow cyclonic recirculation in the southwest Irminger Sea. Vertical sections of absolute geostr...