Monitoring the Norwegian Atlantic slope current using a single moored current meter

• Published in: Continental Shelf Research
• Main Authors: Orvik, Kjell Arild, Skagseth, Øystein
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: English
• Published: Elsevier 2003
• Subjects: Atlantic inflow; Norwegian atlantic slope current; Volume transport; Moored current records; Monitoring; Linear regression model; Arctic; Greenland; Svinøy; Iceland; Nordic Seas
• Online Access: https://hdl.handle.net/1956/427; https://doi.org/10.1016/s0278-4343(02)00172-3

Monitoring the Atlantic inflow (AI) of warm and saline water into the Nordic Seas (Norwegian, Greenland and Iceland Seas) is of great importance becauce of its impact on climate and ecology in Northern Europe and Arctic. In this study, an observation system for establishment of simple, robust and co...