Modelling the Overflows Across the Greenland–Scotland Ridge

• Main Authors: Jungclaus, Johann H., Macrander, Andreas, Käse, Rolf H.
• Other Authors: Dickson, Robert R., Meincke, Jens, Rhines, Peter
• Format: Book Part
• Language: English
• Published: Springer 2008
• Subjects: Faroe Bank; Greenland; Irminger Sea; Arctic; Denmark Strait; Greenland-Scotland Ridge; Iceland; Nordic Seas; North Atlantic
• Online Access: https://oceanrep.geomar.de/id/eprint/29769/; https://oceanrep.geomar.de/id/eprint/29769/1/Jung08.pdf; https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4020-6774-7_23

The Atlantic Meridional Overturning Circulation (AMOC) is part of a global redistribution system in the ocean that carries vast amounts of mass, heat, and freshwater. Within the AMOC, water mass transformations in the Nordic Seas (NS) and the overflows across the Greenland-Scotland Ridge (GSR) contr...