Physical oceanography during POLARSTERN cruise ARK-XVIII/1a ...

In spite of the lack of bottom reaching convection in the Greenland Sea since the 1980s, convection continues to ventilate the Greenland Gyre down to intermediate depth. The variability of this ventilation activity is determined here annually for eight winters according to a multiple criteria catalo...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Authors: Ronski, Stephanie, Budéus, Gereon
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
Temperature, water, potential
Salinity
Density, sigma-theta 0
CTD/Rosette
Computed
CTD, Sea-Bird SBE 911plus
Calculated
Calculated from conductivity
ARK-XVIII/1
Polarstern
Physical Oceanography @ AWI AWI_PhyOce
Greenland
Greenland Sea
Online Access:https://dx.doi.org/10.1594/pangaea.753139
https://doi.pangaea.de/10.1594/PANGAEA.753139
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Summary:In spite of the lack of bottom reaching convection in the Greenland Sea since the 1980s, convection continues to ventilate the Greenland Gyre down to intermediate depth. The variability of this ventilation activity is determined here annually for eight winters according to a multiple criteria catalogue, applied to annual summer conductivity-temperature-depth transects along 75°N. The comparison of the ventilation depths with the meteorological forcing, the ice cover, and the stratification of the water column shows the decisive influence of the hydrographic structure in the upper and intermediate layers. Ice, on the other hand, is not necessary for convection to occur. Ice formation does not even lead to particularly deep convection. A stability maximum, which currently dominates the vertical structure of the water column at medium depth, limits the ventilation depths effectively. ... : Sensors, processing and post-cruise corrections: 0 temperature, primary, 1338; 1 conductivity, primary, 1199; 2 pressure, 53962Sea-Bird-Electronics software: alignctd_adv = c0S/m 0.050; celltm_alpha = 0.0300; celltm_tau = 7.0000; filter_low_pass_tc_B = 0.150; filter_low_pass_B_vars = prDM; loopedit_minVelocity = 0.000; binavg_binsize = 1Proprietary software following 'Unesco technical papers in marine science, 44' is used subsequently.correction temperature: t_new: t_old - 1.5 mK/4000dbar*p this is a well documented cross sensitivity of the sensor; correction salinity: s_new = s_old * (34.906/34.904) ...

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