North Atlantic Current and Labrador Sea Water Circulation in the Subpolar North Atlantic - Cruise No. MSM43 - May 25 - June 27, 2015 - St. John's (Canada) - Nuuk (Greenland) ...

• Main Authors: Mertens, Christian, Böke, Wolfgang, Bulsiewicz, Klaus, Castro Del Guardia, Laura, Christodoulou, Aliki, Cordts, Robert, Kappertz, Lars, Köhler, Janna, Nüß, Rasmus, Roessler, Achim, Schneehorst, Anja, Sonntag, Isabell, Spanknebel, Martin, Stake, Jürgen, Steinfeldt, Reiner, Uhde, Hans-Hermann, Wegehaupt, Timm, Zeiss, Marie
• Format: Report
• Language: English
• Published: DFG-Senatskommission für Ozeanographie 2017
• Subjects: Canada; Greenland; Nuuk; Labrador Sea; north atlantic current; North Atlantic
• Online Access: https://dx.doi.org/10.2312/cr_msm43; https://www.tib.eu/suchen/id/awi:217e850e0225fe74beb9000ab5a00cd93057441b

The MARIA S. MERIAN cruise 43 (MSM43) was dedicated to physical oceanographic observations in the northwestern North Atlantic carried out by the Institute of Environmental Physics (IUP) at the University of Bremen in collaboration with the Bundesamt für Seeschifffahrt und Hydrographie (BSH) in Hamburg. The work program of MSM43 as part of the BMBF project RACE! (Regional Atlantic Circulation and Global Change) had the aim to study the regional circulation under global change. The objectives of the cruise were to service a long-term array (started in summer 2006) of moorings and bottom-mounted inverted echo sounders with pressure sensors (PIES) that measures the transport and water mass variability of the subpolar gyre, and to estimate the formation of Labrador Sea Water between 2013 and 2015 from the large scale distribution of transient tracers (SF6 and CFCs). During the cruise the data of all eight PIES were retrieved by acoustic telemetry, two PIES were released after the data recovery and one instrument ... : MARIA S. MERIAN-Berichte ...