Atlantic Subpolar Gyre Warming – Impacts on Greenland Offshore Waters? by

• Main Author: M. Stein
• Other Authors: The Pennsylvania State University CiteSeerX Archives
• Format: Text
• Language: English
• Published: 2005
• Subjects: Baffin Island; Canada; Fyllas Bank; Greenland; Nuuk; Baffin; Davis Strait; North Atlantic
• Online Access: http://citeseerx.ist.psu.edu/viewdoc/summary?doi=10.1.1.484.1509; http://archive.nafo.int/open/sc/2005/scr05-001.pdf

Sea surface temperature anomalies in the region of the North Atlantic Subpolar Gyre indicate cold conditions in the 1980s and warming from the mid-1990s onwards. Peak warming was observed during October 2003. This is consistent with air temperature measurements from Nuuk/Greenland which document tha...