Productive detours – Atlantic water inflow and acoustic backscatter in the major troughs along the Svalbard shelf

• Published in: Progress in Oceanography
• Main Authors: Menze, Sebastian, Ingvaldsen, Randi Brunvær, Nikolopoulos, Anna, Hattermann, Tore, Albretsen, Jon, Gjøsæter, Harald
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: English
• Published: Elsevier 2020
• Subjects: VDP::Mathematics and natural science: 400::Physics: 430; VDP::Matematikk og Naturvitenskap: 400::Fysikk: 430; Arctic; Hinlopen Trough; Svalbard; Isfjord*; Isfjorden; Kongsfjord*; Kongsfjorden; Kvitøya
• Online Access: https://hdl.handle.net/10037/19937; https://doi.org/10.1016/j.pocean.2020.102447

Atlantic Water (AW) flowing along the western and northern Svalbard shelf-break extends the Atlantic domain into the Arctic and is the region’s major source of heat, nutrients and advected plankton. We investigated the inflow and recirculation of AW into four major troughs that cut into the Svalbard...