Observation‐Based Estimates of Eulerian‐Mean Boundary Downwelling in the Western Subpolar North Atlantic

• Published in: Geophysical Research Letters
• Main Authors: Liu, Yingjie, Desbruyères, Damien, Mercier, Herlé, Spall, Michael
• Other Authors: Laboratoire d'Océanographie Physique et Spatiale (LOPS), Institut de Recherche pour le Développement (IRD)-Institut Français de Recherche pour l'Exploitation de la Mer (IFREMER)-Institut national des sciences de l'Univers (INSU - CNRS)-Université de Brest (UBO)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS), ANR-21-ESRE-0019,ARGO-2030,ARGO-2030(2021)
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: English
• Published: HAL CCSD 2022
• Subjects: [SDU.STU.OC]Sciences of the Universe [physics]/Earth Sciences/Oceanography; Greenland; Irminger Sea; Denmark Strait; Labrador Sea; North Atlantic
• Online Access: https://hal.science/hal-03814759; https://hal.science/hal-03814759/document; https://hal.science/hal-03814759/file/922628_1_merged_1645030745.pdf; https://doi.org/10.1029/2021GL097243

International audience A significant fraction of the Eulerian-mean downwelling feeding the lower limb of the Atlantic Meridional Overturning Circulation (AMOC) occurs along the subpolar North Atlantic continental slopes and is maintained by along-boundary densification and large-scale geostrophic ba...