Transport of volume, heat, and salt towards the Arctic in the Faroe Current 1993–2013

• Published in: Ocean Science
• Main Authors: Hansen, B., Larsen, K. M. H., Hátún, H., Kristiansen, R., Mortensen, E., Østerhus, S.
• Format: Other/Unknown Material
• Language: English
• Published: 2018
• Subjects: Arctic; Faroe Bank; Faroe Islands; Faroe Shelf; Greenland; Faroes; Greenland-Scotland Ridge; Iceland; Nordic Seas; North Atlantic; North atlantic Thermohaline circulation; Northeast Atlantic
• Online Access: https://doi.org/10.5194/os-11-743-2015; https://os.copernicus.org/articles/11/743/2015/

The flow of warm and saline water from the Atlantic Ocean, across the Greenland–Scotland Ridge, into the Nordic Seas – the Atlantic inflow – is split into three separate branches. The most intense of these branches is the inflow between Iceland and the Faroe Islands (Faroes), which is focused into t...