www.elsevier.com/locate/pocean On the origin of the warm inflow to the Nordic Seas

• Main Authors: Michael S. Mccartney, Cecilie Mauritzen
• Other Authors: The Pennsylvania State University CiteSeerX Archives
• Format: Text
• Language: English
• Subjects: Rockall Trough; Wyville Thomson Ridge; Wyville-Thomson Ridge; Nordic Seas; north atlantic current; North Atlantic
• Online Access: http://citeseerx.ist.psu.edu/viewdoc/summary?doi=10.1.1.626.9436; http://met.no/Forskning/Vare_forskere/Cecilie_Mauritzen/filestore/McCartney_Mauritzen_ProgO2001.pdf

Warm and saline waters enter the Nordic Seas from the south as part of the warm-to-cold water transformation of the thermohaline circulation of the northern North Atlantic. One explanation for the origin of the Nordic Seas Inflow is a “shallow source hypothesis ” under which the Inflow waters are a...