Pathways to the Denmark Strait Overflow: A Lagrangian Study in the Iceland Sea

The goal of this project was to directly measure the dense water pathways upstream of the Denmark Strait in the Iceland Sea and compare the results to existing ideas about the dynamics of the circulation by deploying 45 acoustically tracked RAFOS floats over a two year time period (24-Jul-2013 to 29...

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Main Authors: de Jong, Marieke Femke, Bower, Amy S., Søiland, Henrik, Furey, Heather H., Ramsey, Andree L.
Format: Dataset
Language:unknown
Published: Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution 2019
Subjects:
RAFOS
trajectory
Iceland Sea
Denmark Strait
East Icelandic Current
gyre circulation
eddy
Iceland
Online Access:https://hdl.handle.net/1912/24573
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Summary:The goal of this project was to directly measure the dense water pathways upstream of the Denmark Strait in the Iceland Sea and compare the results to existing ideas about the dynamics of the circulation by deploying 45 acoustically tracked RAFOS floats over a two year time period (24-Jul-2013 to 29-May-2015). The floats were ballasted to drift at a target depth of 500m, recording pressure, temperature, and Times Of Arrivals (TOAs) every six hours or every 12 hours. This project was funded by the US National Science Foundation Grant OCE-1259210 and the Bjerknes.

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