The West Spitsbergen Current: Disposition and water mass transformation

• Published in: Journal of Geophysical Research
• Main Authors: Aagaard, K., Foldvik, A., Hillman, S. R.
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: unknown
• Published: 1987
• Subjects: Arctic; Arctic Ocean; Yermak Plateau; Fram Strait; Yermak plateau; Spitsbergen
• Online Access: https://zenodo.org/record/1231442; https://doi.org/10.1029/jc092ic04p03778

Recent work suggests that the West Spitsbergen Current, which provides the principal contribution to the Arctic Ocean of salt and sensible heat, as well as of a variety of anthropogenic tracers, is a rather complex circulation feature. North of 79°N, where the isobaths diverge markedly, the current...