Atlantic Water Pathways Along the North-Western Svalbard Shelf Mapped Using Vessel-Mounted Current Profilers

• Published in: Journal of Geophysical Research: Oceans
• Main Authors: Menze, Sebastian, Ingvaldsen, Randi Brunvær, Haugan, Peter M., Fer, Ilker, Sundfjord, Arild, Beszczynska-Moeller, Agnieszka, Falk-Petersen, Stig
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: English
• Published: 2019
• Subjects: Arctic; Arctic Ocean; Svalbard; Yermak Plateau; Fram Strait; Yermak plateau; Spitsbergen
• Online Access: http://hdl.handle.net/11250/2601232; https://doi.org/10.1029/2018JC014299

A large amount of warm Atlantic water (AW) enters the Arctic as a boundary current through Fram Strait (West Spitsbergen Current [WSC]) and is the major oceanic heat source to the Arctic Ocean. Along the north‐western Svalbard shelf, the WSC splits into the shallow Svalbard Branch, the Yermak Branch...