Norwegian–Greenland Sea (Norwegian Sea Overflow

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• Language: English
• Subjects: Antarctic; Arctic; Greenland; Norwegian Sea; Southern Ocean; The Antarctic; Antarc*; Greenland Sea; Labrador Sea; North Atlantic
• Online Access: http://citeseerx.ist.psu.edu/viewdoc/summary?doi=10.1.1.595.3406; http://www.geus.dk/publications/review-greenland-97/gsb180p163-167.pdf

Direct interaction between the atmosphere and the deep ocean basins takes place today only in the Southern Ocean near the Antarctic continent and in the north-ern extremity of the North Atlantic Ocean, notably in the Norwegian–Greenland Sea and Labrador Sea. Cooling and evaporation cause surface waters in the lat-ter region to become dense and sink. At depth, further mixing occurs with Arctic water masses from adjacent polar shelves. Export of these water masses from the