Two superimposed cold and fresh anomalies enhanced Irminger Sea deep convection in 2016–2018

• Main Authors: Zunino, Patricia, Mercier, Herlé, Thierry, Virginie
• Format: Text
• Language: English
• Published: 2019
• Subjects: Irminger Sea; North Atlantic
• Online Access: https://doi.org/10.5194/os-2019-40; https://www.ocean-sci-discuss.net/os-2019-40/

While Earth system models project a reduction, or even a shut-down, of deep convection in the North Atlantic Ocean in response to anthropogenic forcing, deep convection returned to the Irminger Sea in 2008 and occurred several times since then to reach exceptional depths > 1,500 m in 2015 and 201...