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Flow of Atlantic water to the North Icelandic shelf

Flow of Atlantic water to the North Icelandic shelf. Steingrímur Jónsson 1,2 and Héðinn Valdimarsson 1 1 Marine Research Institute and 2 University of Akureyri. KG6. LB6. 10 cm/s.

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Flow of Atlantic water to the North Icelandic shelf

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  1. Flow of Atlantic water to the North Icelandic shelf Steingrímur Jónsson1,2and Héðinn Valdimarsson1 1Marine Research Institute and 2University of Akureyri

  2. KG6 LB6 10 cm/s Map of the area. The red dots denote current meter positions and the blue denote CTD stations. Depth contours are 100, 200, 500 and 1000 meters.

  3. Salinity on the Hornbanki section. Also shown is the position of the current meters as yellow dots.

  4. Timeline for themeasurements

  5. Hornbanki Hornbanki

  6. HB1 HB2 HB3 E-W component at the Hornbanki section measuredwith a vesselmounted ADCP Meanfrom 2001-2005

  7. Salinity on the Hornbanki section. Also shown is the position of the current meters as yellow dots.

  8. Time series of temperature from the current meters. Also shown is the average of the E-W component of the velocity at mooring H3 at 84m depth (black line). Each tick on the x-axis denotes the beginning of the corresponding month. The yellow lines indicate the times when CTD sections were taken. Data are weekly running averages.

  9. Potential temperature across the Denmark Strait at the sill, Sep. 1997.

  10. PW AW AIW DW

  11. LB6 80m HB2 80m KG6 80m

  12. Temperature averaged from 50-100 m on the Siglunes section

  13. 3.8 Sv 134 TW 0.83 Sv 23 TW 3.8 Sv 156 TW Österhuset al. (2005) 0.83 Sv = 10% of thetotal transport totheNordicSeas 23 TW = 7% of thetotalheat transport totheNordicSeas

  14. Seasonalvariationsin transport • Amplitude of 0.27 Sv • MinimuminFebruary/March • Maximuminlate spring andsummer

  15. KG6 LB6 10 cm/s Map of the area. The red dots denote current meter positions and the blue denote CTD stations. Depth contours are 100, 200, 500 and 1000 meters.

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