Cessation and partial reversal of deep water freshening in the northern North Atlantic: observation-based estimates and attribution

• Published in: Tellus A: Dynamic Meteorology and Oceanography
• Main Authors: Sarafanov, Artem, Mercier, Herlé, Falina, Anastasia, Sokov, Alexey, Lherminier, Pascale
• Other Authors: P.P. Shirshov Institute of Oceanology (SIO), Russian Academy of Sciences Moscow (RAS), Laboratoire de physique des océans (LPO), Institut de Recherche pour le Développement (IRD)-Institut Français de Recherche pour l'Exploitation de la Mer (IFREMER)-Université de Brest (UBO)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: English
• Published: HAL CCSD 2010
• Subjects: [SDU.STU.OC]Sciences of the Universe [physics]/Earth Sciences/Oceanography; Greenland; Irminger Sea; Denmark Strait; Iceland; Nordic Seas; North Atlantic; North Atlantic oscillation; Northeast Atlantic
• Online Access: https://hal.science/hal-00494993; https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1600-0870.2009.00418.x

International audience Recent decadal salinity changes in the Greenland-Scotland overflow-derived deep waters are quantified using CTD data from repeated hydrographic sections in the Irminger Sea. The Denmark Strait Overflow Water salinity record shows the absence of any net change over the 1980s–20...