Active Nordic Seas deep-water formation during the last glacial maximum

• Main Authors: Piotrowski, Alexander, Larkin, Christina
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: English
• Published: Nature Research 2022
• Subjects: 37 Earth Sciences; 3709 Physical Geography and Environmental Geoscience; 3705 Geology; 14 Life Below Water; Arctic; Arctic Ocean; Yermak Plateau; NADW; Nordic Seas; north atlantic current; North Atlantic Deep Water; North Atlantic; Yermak plateau
• Online Access: https://www.repository.cam.ac.uk/handle/1810/349216

The Nordic Seas are the primary location where the warm waters of the North Atlantic Current densify to form North Atlantic Deep Water, which plays a key part in the modern Atlantic Meridional Overturning Circulation. The formation of dense water in the Nordic Seas and Arctic Ocean and resulting oce...