The halt of deep convection in the Greenland Sea: A natural experiment for the study of their causes and effects

• Main Authors: Somavilla, R. (Raquel), Schauer, U., Budeus, G., Latarius, K.
• Format: Conference Object
• Language: English
• Published: Centro Oceanográfico de Gijón 2015
• Subjects: Deep convection; Greenland Sea; Deep Water warming; Arctic Ocean; Circulation; Arctic; Curl; Greenland; North Atlantic
• Online Access: http://hdl.handle.net/10508/9715

There are only a few sites where the deep ocean is ventilated from the surface. The responsible process known as deep convection is recognized to be a key process on the Earth’s climate system, but still it is scarcely observed, and its good representation by global oceanographic and climate models...