The East Greenland Spill Jet as an important component of the Atlantic Meridional Overturning Circulation

Deep-Sea Research Part I: Oceanographic Research Papers

Volumn 92, Issue , 2014, Pages 75-84

  von Appen, Wilken Jon ^a   Koszalka, Inga M ^b   Pickart, Robert S ^c   Haine, Thomas W N ^b   Mastropole, Dana ^c   Magaldi, Marcello G ^b,d   Valdimarsson, Héinn ^e   Girton, James ^f   Jochumsen, Kerstin ^g   Krahmann, Gerd ^h  

^a ALFRED WEGENER INSTITUTE FOR POLAR AND MARINE RESEARCH   (Germany)

^b JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c WOODS HOLE OCEANOGRAPHIC INSTITUTION   (United States)

^d CNR   (Italy)

^e MARINE RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (Iceland)

^f UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON   (United States)

^g UNIVERSITY OF HAMBURG   (Germany)

^h GEOMAR HELMHOLTZ CENTRE FOR OCEAN RESEARCH KIEL   (Germany)

Author keywords

Atlantic Meridional Overturning Circulation; Denmark Strait overflow water; East Greenland Spill Jet; Shelf Basin interaction

Indexed keywords

OCEANOGRAPHY;

ATLANTIC MERIDIONAL OVERTURNING CIRCULATIONS; CONTINENTAL SLOPE; DENMARK STRAIT OVERFLOW WATERS; HIGH-RESOLUTION NUMERICAL MODELS; HYDROGRAPHIC DATA; INTERMEDIATE DENSITIES; SHELF BASIN INTERACTION; SPILL JET;

FLOW OF WATER;

CONTINENTAL SLOPE; MEASUREMENT METHOD; MERIDIONAL CIRCULATION; RESOLUTION; SHELF BREAK; WATER FLOW;

ARCTIC; ATLANTIC OCEAN; DENMARK STRAIT; GREENLAND; IRMINGER SEA;

EID: 84904872633     PISSN: 09670637     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.dsr.2014.06.002     Document Type: Article

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