Hydrographic Conditions on Flemish Cap in July 2001

• Main Author: Cabanas-López, José Manuel
• Format: Report
• Language: English
• Published: Northwest Atlantic Fisheries Organization (NAFO) 2002
• Subjects: Centro Oceanográfico de Vigo; Pesquerías; North Atlantic; Northwest Atlantic
• Online Access: http://hdl.handle.net/10508/1696; http://hdl.handle.net/10261/329083

Hydrographic conditions on Flemish Cap in July 2001 are described after a survey with 94 CTD stations. Current conditions over Flemish Cap are described and compared with those observed in previous years. The superficial water around the Cap at shallow depth is Labrador Water that advents favoured by the anticyclonic circulation over the cape. Since the middle-1990s temperatures have been increasing until 1999. In 2001 the superficial waters (<100 m) are warmer (+1ºC) and saltier (+0.5) that the mean of 25 past years. In depth, a well-developed layer with temperatures around 3.5ºC and salinity 34.85 was observed all around the Cap over 200 m depth.