HR: 15:20h
AN: OS33C-06 INVITED     [Abstracts]
TI: Sources to the East Greenland Current and its Contribution to the Denmark Strait Overflow
AU: * Anderson, L G
EM: leifand@chem.gu.se
AF: Department of Chemistry, Goteborg University, Goteborg, SE-412 96 Sweden
AU: Jeansson, E
EM: emilj@chem.gu.se
AF: Department of Chemistry, Goteborg University, Goteborg, SE-412 96 Sweden
AU: Jutterstr”m, S
EM: sara.jutterstrom@chem.gu.se
AF: Department of Chemistry, Goteborg University, Goteborg, SE-412 96 Sweden
AU: Rudels, B
EM: Bert.Rudels@fimr.fi
AF: Finnish Institute for Marine Research, P.O. Box 33, Helsinki, FIN-00931 Finland
AU: Olsson, A
EM: anders.olsson@bjerknes.uib.no
AF: Bjerknes Centre for Climate Research, University of Bergen, Allegaten 55, Bergen, N-5007 Norway
AU: Smethie, W M
EM: bsmeth@ldeo.columbia.edu
AF: LDEO, Columbia University, Route 9W, Palisades, NY 10964-8000 United States
AU: Swift, J H
EM: jswift@ucsd.edu
AF: SIO, UCSD, Mail Code 0214, Gilman Dr, La Jolla, CA 92093 United States
AB: The mixing of surface, intermediate and deep waters, with emphasis on the intermediate layer, along the East Greenland Current, from the northern Fram Strait to south of Denmark Strait, is evaluated applying optimum multiparameter (OMP) analysis. The data consist of 14 parameters and were collected in May 2002, using the icebreaker Oden, along 7 sections crossing the Greenland continental margin. The water masses included in the OMP analysis comprise those exiting the Arctic Ocean, the West Spitsbergen Current (WSC) and those formed in the Greenland and Iceland Seas. The waters that overflow the Denmark Strait can be divided into a deeper higher density layer and one that lay on top of this. The high-density water is a mixture of waters having their origin in the Arctic Ocean and Greenland Sea while the water on top of this also has a significant contribution from the WSC.
DE: 4808 Chemical tracers
DE: 4207 Arctic and Antarctic oceanography
DE: 4283 Water masses
DE: 4512 Currents
SC: Ocean Sciences [OS]
MN: 2004 AGU Fall Meeting