The annual salinity cycle of the Denmark Strait Overflow

• Published in: Journal of Geophysical Research: Oceans
• Main Authors: Opher, Jacob G., Brearley, J. Alex, Dye, Stephen R., Pickart, Robert S., Renfrew, Ian A., Harden, Ben E., Meredith, Michael P.
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: English
• Published: 2022
• Subjects: Arctic; Arctic Ocean; Greenland; Irminger Basin; Denmark Strait; East Greenland; east greenland current; Nordic Seas
• Online Access: https://ueaeprints.uea.ac.uk/id/eprint/83402/; https://ueaeprints.uea.ac.uk/id/eprint/83402/1/Opher_etal_2022_JGROceans.pdf; https://doi.org/10.1029/2021JC018139

The Denmark Strait Overflow (DSO) is an important source of dense water input to the deep limb of the Atlantic Meridional Overturning Circulation (AMOC). It is fed by separate currents from the north that advect dense water masses formed in the Nordic Seas and Arctic Ocean which then converge at Den...