Physical oceanography from gliders in the Greenland Sea

• Main Authors: Våge, Kjetil, Papritz, Lukas, Håvik, Lisbeth, Spall, Michael, Moore, Kent
• Format: Other/Unknown Material
• Language: English
• Published: PANGAEA 2017
• Subjects: East Greenland; Greenland; Greenland Sea; Greenland-Scotland Ridge; Iceland; Nordic Seas; Sea ice
• Online Access: https://doi.pangaea.de/10.1594/PANGAEA.884339; https://doi.org/10.1594/PANGAEA.884339

Warm subtropical-origin Atlantic water flows northward across the Greenland-Scotland Ridge into the Nordic Seas, where it relinquishes heat to the atmosphere and gradually transforms into dense Atlantic-origin water. Returning southward along east Greenland, this water mass is situated beneath a lay...