Image_1_The Norwegian Sea Gyre – A Regulator of Iceland-Scotland Ridge Exchanges.jpg

• Main Authors: Hjálmar Hátún, Léon Chafik, Karin Margretha Húsgarð Larsen
• Format: Still Image
• Language: unknown
• Published: 2021
• Subjects: Oceanography; Marine Biology; Marine Geoscience; Biological Oceanography; Chemical Oceanography; Physical Oceanography; Marine Engineering; overflow; Atlantic inflows; main thermocline; Norwegian Sea Gyre; ecological indicator; Arctic; Norwegian Sea; Jan Mayen; Faroe Bank; Jan Mayen Ridge; Iceland; Nordic Seas; Subarctic
• Online Access: https://doi.org/10.3389/fmars.2021.694614.s001; https://figshare.com/articles/figure/Image_1_The_Norwegian_Sea_Gyre_A_Regulator_of_Iceland-Scotland_Ridge_Exchanges_jpg/15074364

The Norwegian Sea gyre (NSG) is a large body of Arctic intermediate water and deep dense overflow waters, which circulate counterclockwise within the Norwegian Sea. Argo float trajectories presented in this study suggest that the NSG attains its strongest and most focused flow downstream of a conflu...