Dissipation of turbulent kinetic energy inferred from Seagliders: an application to the eastern Nordic Seas overflows

• Published in: Journal of Physical Oceanography
• Main Authors: Beaird, Nicholas, Fer, Ilker, Rhines, Peter B., Eriksen, Charles
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: English
• Published: American Meteorological Society 2017
• Subjects: North Atlantic Ocean; Bottom currents; Density currents; Mixing; Vertical motion; VDP::Matematikk og naturvitenskap: 400::Geofag: 450::Oseanografi: 452; VDP::Mathematics and natural scienses: 400::Geosciences: 450::Oceanography: 452; Faroe Bank; Greenland; Greenland-Scotland Ridge; Iceland; Nordic Seas; North Atlantic Deep Water; North Atlantic
• Online Access: https://hdl.handle.net/1956/16275; https://doi.org/10.1175/jpo-d-12-094.1

Turbulent mixing is an important process controlling the descent rate, water mass modification, and volume transport augmentation due to entrainment in the dense overflows across the Greenland–Scotland Ridge. These overflows, along with entrained Atlantic waters, form a major portion of the North At...