The importance of the Irminger Gyre to the subpolar North Atlantic overturning on monthly timescales ...

• Main Authors: Sanchez-Franks, Alejandra, Holliday, Penny, Evans, Dafydd Gwyn, Fried, Nora, Tooth, Oliver, Chafik, Leon, Fu, Yao, Li, Feili, De Jong, M. Femke, Johnson, Helen
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: unknown
• Published: GFZ German Research Centre for Geosciences 2023
• Subjects: Curl; Greenland; Irminger Sea; Labrador Sea; north atlantic current; North Atlantic
• Online Access: https://dx.doi.org/10.57757/iugg23-0971; https://gfzpublic.gfz-potsdam.de/pubman/item/item_5016503

<!--!introduction!--> The lower limb of the Atlantic meridional overturning circulation (AMOC) is the net equatorward flow of dense waters that have been transformed due to the cooling and freshening of the lighter, poleward-flowing, upper limb waters. In the subpolar North Atlantic (SPNA), up...