Active Nordic Seas deep-water formation during the last glacial maximum

• Published in: Nature Geoscience
• Main Authors: Larkin, Christina S., Ezat, Mohamed M., Roberts, Natalie L., Bauch, Henning A., Spielhagen, Robert F., Noormets, Riko, Polyak, Leonid, Moreton, Steven G., Rasmussen, Tine L., Sarnthein, Michael, Tipper, Edward T., Piotrowski, Alex M.
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: English
• Published: Nature Research 2022
• Subjects: Arctic; Arctic Ocean; Yermak Plateau; Nordic Seas; north atlantic current; North Atlantic Deep Water; North Atlantic; Yermak plateau
• Online Access: https://oceanrep.geomar.de/id/eprint/57200/; https://oceanrep.geomar.de/id/eprint/57200/13/s41561-022-01050-w.pdf; https://oceanrep.geomar.de/id/eprint/57200/2/41561_2022_1050_MOESM1_ESM.pdf; https://www.nature.com/articles/s41561-022-01050-w; https://doi.org/10.1038/s41561-022-01050-w

The Nordic Seas are the primary location where the warm waters of the North Atlantic Current densify to form North Atlantic Deep Water, which plays a key part in the modern Atlantic Meridional Overturning Circulation. The formation of dense water in the Nordic Seas and Arctic Ocean and resulting oce...