Monthly to annual variability of the Norwegian Atlantic slope current: connection between the northern North Atlantic and the Norwegian Sea

• Published in: Deep Sea Research Part I: Oceanographic Research Papers
• Main Author: Skagseth, Øystein
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: English
• Published: Elsevier 2004
• Subjects: Curl; Norwegian Sea; North Atlantic
• Online Access: https://hdl.handle.net/1956/362; https://doi.org/10.1016/j.dsr.2003.10.014

This study investigated relations between direct current measurements in the Norwegian Atlantic slope current (NwASC), the sea surface height variability from the TOPEX altimeter, and reanalysed mean sea level pressure fields. The analyses show significant coherence between the leading mslp and ssh...