North Atlantic Subpolar Gyre Warming – Impacts on Greenland Offshore Waters

• Main Author: M. Stein
• Other Authors: The Pennsylvania State University CiteSeerX Archives
• Format: Text
• Language: English
• Subjects: Baffin Island; Fyllas Bank; Greenland; Nuuk; Baffin; North Atlantic
• Online Access: http://citeseerx.ist.psu.edu/viewdoc/summary?doi=10.1.1.578.646; http://journal.nafo.int/36/stein/4-stein.pdf

Sea-surface temperature anomalies in the North Atlantic Subpolar Gyre indicate cold conditions in the 1980s and warming from the mid-1990s onwards, with maximum temperatures observed during October 2003. The latter is consistent with air temperatures at Nuuk, Greenland, which document that 2003 was...