The Jan Mayen Current and the deep waters of the Greenland Basin

• Main Author: Blythe, Robert F.
• Other Authors: Bourke, Robert H., Paquette, Robert G., Naval Postgraduate School (U.S.), Physical Oceanography and Meteorology
• Format: Thesis
• Language: English
• Published: Monterey, California: Naval Postgraduate School 1990
• Subjects: Water; Greenland; Greenland Basin; Jan Mayen; Norwegian Sea; Greenland Sea
• Online Access: https://hdl.handle.net/10945/34874

During Sep 1989 the USNS BARTLETT occupied a dense array of 48 high- quality CTD stations in the Greenland Basin to characterize the Jan Mayen Current (JMC) system as part of the Greenland Current (EGC) waters in the form of a surface Polar Water (PW) tongue, a near-surface (approx 50m) core of modi...