Water mass transformation in the Barents Sea -- application of the Hamburg Shelf Ocean Model (HamSOM)

• Published in: ICES Journal of Marine Science
• Main Author: Harms, Ingo H.
• Format: Text
• Language: English
• Published: Oxford University Press 1997
• Subjects: Articles; Arctic; Arctic Ocean; Barents Sea; Franz Josef Land; Svyataya Anna Trough; Ice Sheet; Novaya Zemlya
• Online Access: http://icesjms.oxfordjournals.org/cgi/content/short/54/3/351; https://doi.org/10.1006/jmsc.1997.0226

The bottom water formation in the Barents Sea plays an important role in the maintenance of the Arctic halocline. Deep water is partly formed by haline convection caused by brine release during ice growth. To investigate this process, the HAMburg Shelf Ocean Model (HAMSOM) was coupled to a dynamic a...