Mixing and air-sea buoyancy fluxes set the time-mean overturning circulation in the subpolar North Atlantic

• Main Authors: Evans, D. Gwyn, Holliday, N. Penny, Bacon, Sheldon, Bras, Isabela
• Format: Text
• Language: English
• Published: 2023
• Subjects: Greenland; Irminger Sea; Greenland-Scotland Ridge; Iceland; NADW; Nordic Seas; North Atlantic Deep Water; North Atlantic
• Online Access: https://doi.org/10.5194/egusphere-2022-1059; https://egusphere.copernicus.org/preprints/2022/egusphere-2022-1059/

The overturning streamfunction as measured at the OSNAP (Overturning in the Subpolar North Atlantic Program) mooring array represents the transformation of warm, salty Atlantic Water into cold, fresh North Atlantic Deep Water (NADW). The magnitude of the overturning at the OSNAP array can therefore...