Rapid freshening of Iceland Scotland Overflow Water driven by entrainment of a major upper ocean salinity anomaly
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ftwhoas:oai:darchive.mblwhoilibrary.org:1912/27978 2023-05-15T16:47:03+02:00 Rapid freshening of Iceland Scotland Overflow Water driven by entrainment of a major upper ocean salinity anomaly Devana, Manish Johns, William E. Houk, Adam Zou, Sijia 2021-11-15 https://hdl.handle.net/1912/27978 unknown American Geophysical Union https://doi.org/10.1029/2021GL094396 Devana, M. S., Johns, W. E., Houk, A., & Zou, S. (2021). Rapid freshening of Iceland Scotland Overflow Water driven by entrainment of a major upper ocean salinity anomaly. Geophysical Research Letters, 48(22), e2021GL094396. https://hdl.handle.net/1912/27978 doi:10.1029/2021GL094396 Devana, M. S., Johns, W. E., Houk, A., & Zou, S. (2021). Rapid freshening of Iceland Scotland Overflow Water driven by entrainment of a major upper ocean salinity anomaly. Geophysical Research Letters, 48(22), e2021GL094396. doi:10.1029/2021GL094396 Article 2021 ftwhoas https://doi.org/10.1029/2021GL094396 2022-05-28T23:04:26Z Author Posting. © American Geophysical Union, 2021. This article is posted here by permission of American Geophysical Union for personal use, not for redistribution. The definitive version was published in Geophysical Research Letters 48(22), (2021): e2021GL094396, https://doi.org/10.1029/2021GL094396. Newly available mooring observations from the Overturning in the Subpolar North Atlantic Program (OSNAP) show an abrupt decline in Iceland Scotland Overflow (ISOW) salinity from 2017 to 2018 summer. Previous declines in ISOW salinity of similar magnitude have largely been attributed to changes in convectively formed deep waters in the Nordic Seas on decadal time scales. We show that this rapid decline in salinity was driven by entrainment of a major upper ocean salinity anomaly in the Iceland Basin. This is shown by tracking the propagation of the upper ocean anomaly into ISOW using a combination of mooring and Argo observations, surface drifter trajectories, and numerical model results. A 2-year total transit time from the upper ocean into the ISOW layer was found. The results show that entrainment allows for rapid modification of ISOW, and consequently the lower limb of Atlantic Meridional Overturning Circulation, on subdecadal timescales. Financial support for this research was provided by the US National Science Foundation under grants OCE-1259398 and OCE-1756231. S. Zou is supported by the US National Science Foundation Grants OCE-1756361. 2022-05-15 Article in Journal/Newspaper Iceland Nordic Seas North Atlantic Woods Hole Scientific Community: WHOAS (Woods Hole Open Access Server) Geophysical Research Letters 48 22 |
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Author Posting. © American Geophysical Union, 2021. This article is posted here by permission of American Geophysical Union for personal use, not for redistribution. The definitive version was published in Geophysical Research Letters 48(22), (2021): e2021GL094396, https://doi.org/10.1029/2021GL094396. Newly available mooring observations from the Overturning in the Subpolar North Atlantic Program (OSNAP) show an abrupt decline in Iceland Scotland Overflow (ISOW) salinity from 2017 to 2018 summer. Previous declines in ISOW salinity of similar magnitude have largely been attributed to changes in convectively formed deep waters in the Nordic Seas on decadal time scales. We show that this rapid decline in salinity was driven by entrainment of a major upper ocean salinity anomaly in the Iceland Basin. This is shown by tracking the propagation of the upper ocean anomaly into ISOW using a combination of mooring and Argo observations, surface drifter trajectories, and numerical model results. A 2-year total transit time from the upper ocean into the ISOW layer was found. The results show that entrainment allows for rapid modification of ISOW, and consequently the lower limb of Atlantic Meridional Overturning Circulation, on subdecadal timescales. Financial support for this research was provided by the US National Science Foundation under grants OCE-1259398 and OCE-1756231. S. Zou is supported by the US National Science Foundation Grants OCE-1756361. 2022-05-15 |
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Devana, Manish Johns, William E. Houk, Adam Zou, Sijia |
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Rapid freshening of Iceland Scotland Overflow Water driven by entrainment of a major upper ocean salinity anomaly |
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Rapid freshening of Iceland Scotland Overflow Water driven by entrainment of a major upper ocean salinity anomaly |
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Rapid freshening of Iceland Scotland Overflow Water driven by entrainment of a major upper ocean salinity anomaly |
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Rapid freshening of Iceland Scotland Overflow Water driven by entrainment of a major upper ocean salinity anomaly |
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Rapid freshening of Iceland Scotland Overflow Water driven by entrainment of a major upper ocean salinity anomaly |
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rapid freshening of iceland scotland overflow water driven by entrainment of a major upper ocean salinity anomaly |
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Devana, M. S., Johns, W. E., Houk, A., & Zou, S. (2021). Rapid freshening of Iceland Scotland Overflow Water driven by entrainment of a major upper ocean salinity anomaly. Geophysical Research Letters, 48(22), e2021GL094396. doi:10.1029/2021GL094396 |
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