The East Greenland Current and its impacts on the Nordic Seas: observed trends in the past decade
<qd> Rudels, B., Korhonen, M., Budéus, G., Beszczynska-Möller, A., Schauer, U., Nummelin, A., Quadfasel, D., and Valdimarsson, H. The East Greenland Current and its impacts on the Nordic Seas: observed trends in the past decade. – ICES Journal of Marine Science, 69: . </qd>For the past 3...
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fthighwire:oai:open-archive.highwire.org:icesjms:fss079v1 2023-05-15T14:36:55+02:00 The East Greenland Current and its impacts on the Nordic Seas: observed trends in the past decade Rudels, Bert Korhonen, Meri Budéus, Gereon Beszczynska-Möller, Agnieszka Schauer, Ursula Nummelin, Aleksi Quadfasel, Detlef Valdimarsson, Hedinn 2012-05-23 21:54:02.0 text/html http://icesjms.oxfordjournals.org/cgi/content/short/fss079v1 https://doi.org/10.1093/icesjms/fss079 en eng Oxford University Press http://icesjms.oxfordjournals.org/cgi/content/short/fss079v1 http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/icesjms/fss079 Copyright (C) 2012, International Council for the Exploration of the Sea/Conseil International pour l'Exploration de la Mer ICES/NAFO - Variability of North Atlantic Marine Ecosystems 2000-2009 TEXT 2012 fthighwire https://doi.org/10.1093/icesjms/fss079 2013-05-26T22:47:31Z <qd> Rudels, B., Korhonen, M., Budéus, G., Beszczynska-Möller, A., Schauer, U., Nummelin, A., Quadfasel, D., and Valdimarsson, H. The East Greenland Current and its impacts on the Nordic Seas: observed trends in the past decade. – ICES Journal of Marine Science, 69: . </qd>For the past 30 years, it has been known that dense waters are created in the Arctic Ocean. However, before the late 1980s, observations indicated that Arctic Ocean deep waters only modified the deep water in the Greenland Sea, which was still thought of as the major source of dense water. In the mid-1990s, this picture began to fade. The deep convection in the Greenland Sea weakened and only Arctic Intermediate Water was formed. A deep salinity maximum was reinforced and a temperature maximum emerged at mid-depth. The densities of the salinity and temperature maxima were those of the deep waters in the Arctic Ocean, and one possibility was that waters below the convection were ventilated by Arctic Ocean deep waters from the East Greenland Current. Between 1998 and 2010, the salinity and temperature of the deep water in the Greenland Sea increased, implying continuous input from the East Greenland Current. Water from the Greenland Sea advected to Fram Strait now has almost Arctic Ocean characteristics and cannot significantly change the outflowing Arctic Ocean waters by mixing in the East Greenland Current, leading to a more-rapid transformation of the deep Greenland Sea water column. Text Arctic Arctic Ocean East Greenland east greenland current Fram Strait Greenland Greenland Sea Nordic Seas North Atlantic HighWire Press (Stanford University) Arctic Arctic Ocean Greenland Korhonen ENVELOPE(28.850,28.850,65.950,65.950) ICES Journal of Marine Science 69 5 841 851 |
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<qd> Rudels, B., Korhonen, M., Budéus, G., Beszczynska-Möller, A., Schauer, U., Nummelin, A., Quadfasel, D., and Valdimarsson, H. The East Greenland Current and its impacts on the Nordic Seas: observed trends in the past decade. – ICES Journal of Marine Science, 69: . </qd>For the past 30 years, it has been known that dense waters are created in the Arctic Ocean. However, before the late 1980s, observations indicated that Arctic Ocean deep waters only modified the deep water in the Greenland Sea, which was still thought of as the major source of dense water. In the mid-1990s, this picture began to fade. The deep convection in the Greenland Sea weakened and only Arctic Intermediate Water was formed. A deep salinity maximum was reinforced and a temperature maximum emerged at mid-depth. The densities of the salinity and temperature maxima were those of the deep waters in the Arctic Ocean, and one possibility was that waters below the convection were ventilated by Arctic Ocean deep waters from the East Greenland Current. Between 1998 and 2010, the salinity and temperature of the deep water in the Greenland Sea increased, implying continuous input from the East Greenland Current. Water from the Greenland Sea advected to Fram Strait now has almost Arctic Ocean characteristics and cannot significantly change the outflowing Arctic Ocean waters by mixing in the East Greenland Current, leading to a more-rapid transformation of the deep Greenland Sea water column. |
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The East Greenland Current and its impacts on the Nordic Seas: observed trends in the past decade |
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The East Greenland Current and its impacts on the Nordic Seas: observed trends in the past decade |
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The East Greenland Current and its impacts on the Nordic Seas: observed trends in the past decade |
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The East Greenland Current and its impacts on the Nordic Seas: observed trends in the past decade |
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The East Greenland Current and its impacts on the Nordic Seas: observed trends in the past decade |
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east greenland current and its impacts on the nordic seas: observed trends in the past decade |
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