Rapidly Increasing Artificial Iodine Highlights Pathways of Iceland-Scotland Overflow Water and Labrador Sea Water

• Published in: Frontiers in Marine Science
• Main Authors: Maxi Castrillejo, Núria Casacuberta, Christof Vockenhuber, Pascale Lherminier
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: English
• Published: Frontiers Media S.A. 2022
• Subjects: artificial radionuclides; 129I; ISOW; LSW; AMOC; iodine; Science; Q; General. Including nature conservation; geographical distribution; QH1-199.5; Greenland; Reykjanes; Iceland; Labrador Sea; North Atlantic
• Online Access: https://doi.org/10.3389/fmars.2022.897729; https://doaj.org/article/c309161f2f9944a5b0238d30a606f0e9

Iceland-Scotland Overflow Water (ISOW) and Labrador Seawater (LSW) are major water masses of the lower Atlantic Meridional Overturning Circulation (AMOC). Therefore, the investigation of their transport pathways is important to understand the structure of the AMOC and how climate properties are expo...