Fates and Travel Times of Denmark Strait Overflow Water in the Irminger Basin*

• Published in: Journal of Physical Oceanography
• Main Authors: Koszalka, Inga Monika, Haine, Thomas W. N., Magaldi, Marcello G.
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: English
• Published: AMS (American Meteorological Society) 2013
• Subjects: Irminger Basin; Angmagssalik; Denmark Strait; North Atlantic Deep Water; North Atlantic
• Online Access: https://oceanrep.geomar.de/id/eprint/27903/; https://oceanrep.geomar.de/id/eprint/27903/1/jpo-d-13-023.1.pdf; https://oceanrep.geomar.de/id/eprint/27903/2/JPO-D-13-023REVs1.txt; https://oceanrep.geomar.de/id/eprint/27903/3/JPO-D-13-023s2.m4v; https://oceanrep.geomar.de/id/eprint/27903/4/JPO-D-13-023s3.m4v; https://oceanrep.geomar.de/id/eprint/27903/5/JPO-D-13-023s4.m4v; https://oceanrep.geomar.de/id/eprint/27903/6/JPO-D-13-023s5.m4v; https://doi.org/10.1175/JPO-D-13-023.1

The Denmark Strait Overflow (DSO) supplies about one-third of the North Atlantic Deep Water and is critical to global thermohaline circulation. Knowledge of the pathways of DSO through the Irminger Basin and its transformation there is still incomplete, however. The authors deploy over 10 000 Lagran...