Increasing transports of volume, heat, and salt towards the Arctic in the Faroe Current 1993–2013

• Main Authors: B. Hansen, K. M. H. Larsen, H. Hátún, R. Kristiansen, E. Mortensen, S. Østerhus
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: unknown
• Published: Zenodo 2015
• Subjects: Faroe Islands; Faroes; Greenland; Greenland-Scotland Ridge; Iceland; Nordic Seas; North Atlantic; North atlantic Thermohaline circulation; Northeast Atlantic
• Online Access: https://doi.org/10.5194/osd-12-1013-2015

The flow of warm and saline water from the Atlantic Ocean, across the Greenland– Scotland Ridge, into the Nordic Seas – the Atlantic inflow – is split into three separate branches. The most intensive of these branches is the inflow between Iceland and the Faroe Islands (Faroes), which is focused int...