A Deep Convective Chimney in the Winter Greenland Sea (Wadhams, Hansen and Wilkinson )
During two cruises to the Greenland Sea in winter 2001 a narrow convective chimney extending from the surface to a depth exceeding 2400 meters was is covered and mapped in detail. The feature was observed to be stable over a period of a month and its centre moved only 700 m in that time; its diamete...
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| Format: | Other Non-Article Part of Journal/Newspaper |
| Language: | English |
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University of Berlin
2002
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| Online Access: | https://pure.uhi.ac.uk/portal/en/publications/a-deep-convective-chimney-in-the-winter-greenland-sea-wadhams-hansen-and-wilkinson-(84471e5f-9fe7-4021-8052-13e8526288de).html https://folk.uib.no/ngfls/NOClimI/Documents/TecRep3.pdf |
| Summary: | During two cruises to the Greenland Sea in winter 2001 a narrow convective chimney extending from the surface to a depth exceeding 2400 meters was is covered and mapped in detail. The feature was observed to be stable over a period of a month and its centre moved only 700 m in that time; its diameter was only 10 km. At a time when deep convection is thought to have ceased in the Greenland Sea the existence of this feature is a challenge to our understanding of the causes and impacts of open ocean winter convection. |
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