Recent upper layer cooling and freshening in the Norwegian Sea

• Main Authors: Blindheim, Johan, Østerhus, Svein, Borovkov, Vladimir, Hansen, Bogi, Malmberg, Svend-Aage, Turrell, William R.
• Format: Report
• Language: English
• Published: ICES 1996
• Subjects: hydrography; hydrografi; current measurements; strømmålinger; VDP::Mathematics and natural science: 400::Zoology and botany: 480::Marine biology: 497; VDP::Mathematics and natural science: 400::Geosciences: 450::Oceanography: 452; Arctic; Arctic Ocean; Norwegian Sea; Greenland; Curl; Faroes; Greenland Sea; Nordic Seas
• Online Access: http://hdl.handle.net/11250/105548

Several time series of temperature and salinity in the Norwegian Sea indicate a general upper layer decrease in both variables. The observations indicate that this change began in about the middle of the 1960s. Time series at Ocean Weather Station "M" (OWS"M"), from Russian surve...