The South Icelandic Current ...
No abstracts are to be cited without prior reference to the author. The circulation of Icelandic waters is simulated by the three-dimensional ocean model CODE. The high resolution simulation reveals several new insights into the regional oceanography. Thus, the northward transport of Atlantic Water...
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ftdatacite:10.17895/ices.pub.24753759 2024-02-27T08:41:10+00:00 The South Icelandic Current ... Logemann, Kai Ólafsson, Jón Snorrason, Árni Marteinsdóttir, Guðrún 2024 https://dx.doi.org/10.17895/ices.pub.24753759 https://ices-library.figshare.com/articles/conference_contribution/The_South_Icelandic_Current/24753759 unknown ASC 2013 - Theme session L https://ices-library.figshare.com/ICES-ASC-2013/groups ICES Custom Licence https://www.ices.dk/Pages/library_policies.aspx Ecosystem observation, processes and dynamics CreativeWork Conference contribution Other article 2024 ftdatacite https://doi.org/10.17895/ices.pub.24753759 2024-02-01T14:39:17Z No abstracts are to be cited without prior reference to the author. The circulation of Icelandic waters is simulated by the three-dimensional ocean model CODE. The high resolution simulation reveals several new insights into the regional oceanography. Thus, the northward transport of Atlantic Water over the Icelandic shelf, from the Irminger Sea and the Iceland Basin into the Nordic Seas, is simulated as a symmetrical system of two currents, with the established North Icelandic Irminger Current (NIIC) over the north-western and northern shelf, and a hitherto unnamed current over the southern and south-eastern shelf, denoted here as South Icelandic Current (SIC). Both currents are driven by barotropic pressure gradients induced by a sea level slope across the Greenland-Scotland Ridge. Being an upstream precursor of the Faroe Current (FC) the SIC is simulated to be an energetic flow with a mean volume flux of around 2 Sv south-east of Iceland which clearly differs from the wider, sluggish flow of the North ... Conference Object Greenland Greenland-Scotland Ridge Iceland Nordic Seas North Icelandic Irminger Current NIIC DataCite Metadata Store (German National Library of Science and Technology) Greenland Irminger Sea ENVELOPE(-34.041,-34.041,63.054,63.054) |
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No abstracts are to be cited without prior reference to the author. The circulation of Icelandic waters is simulated by the three-dimensional ocean model CODE. The high resolution simulation reveals several new insights into the regional oceanography. Thus, the northward transport of Atlantic Water over the Icelandic shelf, from the Irminger Sea and the Iceland Basin into the Nordic Seas, is simulated as a symmetrical system of two currents, with the established North Icelandic Irminger Current (NIIC) over the north-western and northern shelf, and a hitherto unnamed current over the southern and south-eastern shelf, denoted here as South Icelandic Current (SIC). Both currents are driven by barotropic pressure gradients induced by a sea level slope across the Greenland-Scotland Ridge. Being an upstream precursor of the Faroe Current (FC) the SIC is simulated to be an energetic flow with a mean volume flux of around 2 Sv south-east of Iceland which clearly differs from the wider, sluggish flow of the North ... |
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