The Jan Mayen Current and the Deep Waters of the Greenland Basin.

• Main Author: Blythe, Robert F.
• Other Authors: NAVAL POSTGRADUATE SCHOOL MONTEREY CA
• Format: Text
• Language: English
• Published: 1990
• Subjects: Physical and Dynamic Oceanography; *POLAR REGIONS; *DEEP WATER; DYNAMICS; WATER; RATES; ARRAYS; SURFACES; FRESH WATER; DRIFT; ICE; SURVEYS; SURFACE WATERS; HIGH DENSITY; TRANSPORT; PATTERNS; THINNESS; BAROMETRIC PRESSURE; ATLANTIC OCEAN; SEA WATER; HEIGHT; BASINS(GEOGRAPHIC); EURASIA; GRADIENTS; GREENLAND SEA; LAGRANGIAN FUNCTIONS; GREENLAND; CORES; WATER ANALYSIS; TEMPERATURE; *JAN MAYEN CURRENT; *OCEAN CURRENTS; *SEA WATER; *WATER ANALYSIS; OCEANOGRAPHIC DATA; ELECTRICAL CONDUCTIVITY; DENSITY; TRANSPORT PROPERTIES; EAST GREENLAND CURRENT; THESES; Norwegian Sea; Greenland; Jan Mayen; Greenland Basin; East Greenland; east greenland current; Greenland Sea
• Online Access: http://www.dtic.mil/docs/citations/ADA240657; http://oai.dtic.mil/oai/oai?&verb=getRecord&metadataPrefix=html&identifier=ADA240657

During Sep 1989 the USNS BARTLETT occupied a dense array of 48 high- quality CTD stations in the Greenland Basin to characterize the Jan Mayen Current (JMC) system as part of the Greenland Current (EGC) waters in the form of a surface Polar Water (PW) tongue, a near-surface (approx 50m) core of modi...