The retroflection of part of the East Greenland Current at Cape Farewell

• Published in: Geophysical Research Letters
• Main Authors: Holliday, N.P., Meyer, A., Bacon, S., Alderson, S., de Cuevas, B.
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: English
• Published: 2007
• Subjects: Arctic; Greenland; Irminger Basin; Irminger Sea; Cape Farewell; East Greenland; east greenland current; Labrador Sea; North Atlantic
• Online Access: http://nora.nerc.ac.uk/id/eprint/144770/; https://nora.nerc.ac.uk/id/eprint/144770/1/2006GL029085.pdf; http://www.agu.org/journals/gl/gl0707/2006GL029085/; https://doi.org/10.1029/2006GL029085

The East Greenland Current (EGC) and the smaller East Greenland Coastal Current (EGCC) provide the major conduit for cold fresh polar water to enter the lower latitudes of the North Atlantic. They flow equatorward through the western Irminger Basin and around Cape Farewell into the Labrador Sea. The...