Physical oceanography during POLARSTERN cruise ARK-XIX/4b ...

Exchanges between the North Atlantic and the Arctic Ocean result in the most dramatic water mass conversions in the World Ocean: warm and saline Atlantic waters, flowing through the Nordic Seas into the Arctic Ocean, are modified by cooling, freezing and melting to become shallow fresh waters, ice a...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Authors: Fahrbach, Eberhard, Wisotzki, Andreas
Format: Dataset
Language:English
Published: PANGAEA 2010
Subjects:
Event label
Date/Time of event
Latitude of event
Longitude of event
Elevation of event
DEPTH, water
Pressure, water
Temperature, water
Conductivity
Salinity
Temperature, water, potential
Density, sigma-theta 0
Number of observations
CTD/Rosette
Computed
CTD, Sea-Bird SBE 911plus
Calculated
ARK-XIX/4b
Polarstern
Arctic-Subarctic Ocean Flux Array for European Climate North ASOF-N
Physical Oceanography @ AWI AWI_PhyOce
Arctic
Arctic Ocean
Fram Strait
Nordic Seas
North Atlantic
Subarctic
Online Access:https://dx.doi.org/10.1594/pangaea.742656
https://doi.pangaea.de/10.1594/PANGAEA.742656
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Summary:Exchanges between the North Atlantic and the Arctic Ocean result in the most dramatic water mass conversions in the World Ocean: warm and saline Atlantic waters, flowing through the Nordic Seas into the Arctic Ocean, are modified by cooling, freezing and melting to become shallow fresh waters, ice and saline deep waters. The outflow from the Nordic Seas to the south provides the initial driving of the global thermohaline circulation cell. Knowledge of these fluxes and understanding of the modification processes is a major prerequisite for the quantification of the rate of overturning within the large circulation cells of the Arctic and the Atlantic Oceans, and is also a basic requirement for understanding the role of these ocean areas in climate variability on interannual to decadal time scales.The Fram Strait represents the only deep connection between the Arctic Ocean and the Nordic Seas. Just as the freshwater transport from the Arctic Ocean is of major influence on convection in the Nordic Seas and ...

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