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the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 License.
the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 License.
27 Sep 2023
| OSR7 | Chapter 4.2
| 27 Sep 2023 | OSR7 | Chapter 4.2
Recent variations in oceanic transports across the Greenland–Scotland Ridge
Michael Mayer
CORRESPONDING AUTHOR
Department of Meteorology and Geophysics, University of Vienna,
1090 Vienna, Austria
Research Department, European Centre for Medium-Range Weather
Forecasts (ECMWF), 53175 Bonn, Germany
b.geos, 2100 Korneuburg, Austria
Takamasa Tsubouchi
Atmosphere and Ocean Department, Japan Meteorological Agency (JMA),
Tokyo, 105-8431, Japan
Susanna Winkelbauer
Department of Meteorology and Geophysics, University of Vienna,
1090 Vienna, Austria
Karin Margretha H. Larsen
Faroe Marine Research Institute, Tórshavn, 100, Faroe Islands
Barbara Berx
Marine Scotland, Aberdeen, AB11 9DB, United Kingdom
Andreas Macrander
Environmental division, Marine and Freshwater Research Institute, Hafnarfjörður, 220, Iceland
Doroteaciro Iovino
Ocean Modeling and Data Assimilation Division, Centro
Euro-Mediterraneo sui Cambiamenti Climatici (CMCC), Bologna, 40127, Italy
Steingrímur Jónsson
Environmental division, Marine and Freshwater Research Institute, Hafnarfjörður, 220, Iceland
Faculty of Natural Resource Sciences, University of Akureyri, Akureyri, 600, Iceland
Richard Renshaw
Met Office, Exeter, EX1 3PB, United Kingdom
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Seasonal variations of processes such as upwelling and biological production that happen along the northwestern African coast can modulate the temporal variability of the biological activity of the adjacent open North Atlantic hundreds of kilometers away from the coast thanks to the lateral transport of coastal organic carbon. This happens with a temporal delay, which is smaller than a season up to roughly 500 km from the coast due to the intense transport by small-scale filaments.
Bogi Hansen, Karin Margretha Húsgarð Larsen, Hjálmar Hátún, Steingrímur Jónsson, Sólveig Rósa Ólafsdóttir, Andreas Macrander, William Johns, N. Penny Holliday, and Steffen Malskær Olsen
Ocean Sci. Discuss., https://doi.org/10.5194/os-2021-14, https://doi.org/10.5194/os-2021-14, 2021
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Compared to other freshwater sources, runoff from Iceland is small and usually flows into the Nordic Seas. Under certain wind conditions, it can, however, flow into the Iceland Basin and this occurred after 2014, when this region had already freshened from other causes. This explains why the surface freshening in this area became so extreme. The local and shallow character of this runoff allows it to have a disproportionate effect on vertical mixing, winter convection, and biological production.
Beena Balan-Sarojini, Steffen Tietsche, Michael Mayer, Magdalena Balmaseda, Hao Zuo, Patricia de Rosnay, Tim Stockdale, and Frederic Vitart
The Cryosphere, 15, 325–344, https://doi.org/10.5194/tc-15-325-2021, https://doi.org/10.5194/tc-15-325-2021, 2021
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Our study for the first time shows the impact of measured sea ice thickness (SIT) on seasonal forecasts of all the seasons. We prove that the long-term memory present in the Arctic winter SIT is helpful to improve summer sea ice forecasts. Our findings show that realistic SIT initial conditions to start a forecast are useful in (1) improving seasonal forecasts, (2) understanding errors in the forecast model, and (3) recognizing the need for continuous monitoring of world's ice-covered oceans.
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This paper compares oceanic fluxes across the Greenland–Scotland Ridge (GSR) from ocean reanalyses to largely independent observational data. Reanalyses tend to underestimate the inflow of warm waters of subtropical Atlantic origin and hence oceanic heat transport across the GSR. Investigation of a strong negative heat transport anomaly around 2018 highlights the interplay of variability on different timescales and the need for long-term monitoring of the GSR to detect forced climate signals.
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