Directly measured currents and estimated transport pathways of Atlantic Water between 59.58N and the Iceland-Faroes-Scotland Ridge

• Published in: Tellus A: Dynamic Meteorology and Oceanography
• Main Authors: Childers, Katelin, Flagg, Charles, Rossby, Thomas, Schrum, Corinna
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: English
• Published: Co-Action Publishing 2016
• Subjects: ADCP; current measurements; northeast Atlantic transport patterns; repeat sampling from vessels in regular traffic; Faroes–Shetland Channel; Iceland–Faroes Ridge; VDP::Matematikk og Naturvitenskap: 400; George Bligh Bank; Greenland; Hatton Bank; Irminger Sea; Lousy Bank; Reykjanes; Wyville Thomson Ridge; Wyville-Thomson Ridge; Faroes; Iceland; North Atlantic; Northeast Atlantic
• Online Access: https://hdl.handle.net/1956/12059; https://doi.org/10.3402/tellusa.v67.28067

Using vessel-mounted acoustic Doppler current profiler data from four different routes between Scotland, Iceland and Greenland, we map out the mean flow of water in the top 400 m of the northeastern North Atlantic. The poleward transport east of the Reykjanes Ridge (RR) decreases from ~8.5 to 10 Sv...