Confluence and redistribution of Atlantic water in the Nansen

• Main Authors: Makarov Basins, U. Schauer, B. Rudels, E. P. Jones, L. G. Anderson, R. D. Muench, G. Björk, J. H. Swift, V. Ivanov, A. -m. Larsson
• Other Authors: The Pennsylvania State University CiteSeerX Archives
• Format: Text
• Language: English
• Published: 2000
• Subjects: Barents Sea; Kara Sea; St. Anna Trough; Fram Strait; Nansen
• Online Access: http://citeseerx.ist.psu.edu/viewdoc/summary?doi=10.1.1.371.5705; http://hal.archives-ouvertes.fr/docs/00/31/69/44/PDF/angeo-20-257-2002.pdf

Abstract. The waters in the Eurasian Basin are conditioned by the confluence of the boundary flow of warm, saline Fram Strait water and cold low salinity water from the Barents Sea entering through the St. Anna Trough. Hydrographic sections obtained from RV Polarstern during the summer of 1996 (ACSY...