The East Greenland Polar Front in autumn

• Main Authors: Paquette, Robert G., Bourke, Robert H., Newton, John L., Perdue, William F.
• Other Authors: Operations Research (OR), Naval Postgraduate School (U.S.), Graduate School of Operational and Information Sciences (GSOIS)
• Format: Report
• Language: English
• Published: Monterey, California. Naval Postgraduate School 1985
• Subjects: East Greenland Current; East Greenland Polar Front; Fine structure; NOKTHWIND; Marginal Ice Zone; Molloy Deep Eddy; Greenland Sea Double-Diffusion; FRONTS(OCEANOGRAPHY); Arctic; Arctic Ocean; Greenland; Molloy; Molloy Deep; Arctic Submarine Laboratory; East Greenland; east greenland current; Greenland Sea
• Online Access: https://hdl.handle.net/10945/29257

Closely spaced salinity and temperature measurements in the region of the East Greenland Polar Front from 75 N to 79 N in October-November 1981 are presented. The Return Atlantic Current (RAC), having a core of relatively warm and saline Atlantic Intermediate Water (AIW) (T = 0.5 to 3.0 C, S = 34.0...