Wind-Driven Variability in the Spitsbergen Polar Current and the Svalbard Branch Across the Yermak Plateau

• Published in: Journal of Geophysical Research: Oceans
• Main Authors: Nilsen, Frank, Ersdal, Eli Anne, Skogseth, Ragnheid
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: English
• Published: Wiley 2021
• Subjects: Arctic; Arctic Ocean; Curl; Narrow Passage; Svalbard; Yermak Plateau; Yermak plateau; Spitsbergen
• Online Access: https://hdl.handle.net/11250/2993980; https://doi.org/10.1029/2020JC016734

The Yermak Plateau (YP) acts as a guidance or barrier for the West Spitsbergen Current (WSC), which either crosses the plateau or flows around it to enter the Arctic Ocean. Closer to the West Spitsbergen coast, the Spitsbergen Polar Current (SPC) also flows over the YP in a narrow passage between th...