Seasonal variability of the warm Atlantic water layer in the vicinity of the Greenland shelf break

• Main Authors: Jeremy P. Grist, Simon A. Josey, Lars Boehme, Michael P. Meredith, Kristin L. Laidre, Garry B. Stenson, Mike O. Hammill, Robert Marsh, Andrew C. Coward
• Other Authors: The Pennsylvania State University CiteSeerX Archives
• Format: Text
• Language: English
• Subjects: Greenland; Irminger Basin
• Online Access: http://citeseerx.ist.psu.edu/viewdoc/summary?doi=10.1.1.670.9525; http://eprints.soton.ac.uk/371748/1/grl52347.pdf

Abstract The warmest water reaching the east and west coast of Greenland is found between 200 and 600m. While important for melting Greenland’s outlet glaciers, limited winter observations of this layer prohibit determination of its seasonality. To address this, temperature data from Argo profiling...