PIES time series in the North Atlantic at the Mid-Atlantic Ridge (2006-2010)

• Main Authors: Roessler, Achim, Rhein, Monika, Kieke, Dagmar, Mertens, Christian
• Format: Dataset
• Language: English
• Published: PANGAEA 2015
• Subjects: Mid-Atlantic Ridge; north atlantic current; North Atlantic
• Online Access: https://doi.pangaea.de/10.1594/PANGAEA.864722; https://doi.org/10.1594/PANGAEA.864722

In the western North Atlantic, warm and saline water is brought by the North Atlantic Current (NAC) from the subtropics into the subpolar gyre. Four inverted echo sounders with high precision pressure sensors (PIES) were moored between 47°40' N and 52°30' N to study the main pathways of th...