Mixing and air-sea buoyancy fluxes set the time-mean overturning circulation in the subpolar North Atlantic

• Main Authors: Evans, D. Gwyn, Holliday, N. Penny, Bacon, Sheldon, Le Bras, Isabela
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: English
• Published: Copernicus Publications 2022
• Subjects: article; Verlagsveröffentlichung; Greenland; Irminger Sea; Greenland-Scotland Ridge; Iceland; NADW; Nordic Seas; North Atlantic Deep Water; North Atlantic
• Online Access: https://doi.org/10.5194/egusphere-2022-1059; https://noa.gwlb.de/receive/cop_mods_00062892; https://egusphere.copernicus.org/preprints/egusphere-2022-1059/egusphere-2022-1059.pdf

The overturning streamfunction as measured at the OSNAP (Overturning in the Subpolar North Atlantic Program) mooring array represents the transformation of warm/salty Atlantic Water into cold/fresh North Atlantic Deep Water (NADW). The magnitude of the overturning at the OSNAP mooring array can ther...