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Liquid freshwater transport and Polar Surface Water characteristics in the East Greenland Current during the AO-02 Oden expedition |
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| Authors: | Johan Nilsson Göran Björk Peter Winsor |
| Institution: | a Department of Meteorology, Stockholm University, SE-10691 Stockholm, Sweden b Department of Oceanography, Earth Sciences Centre, Göteborg University, Box 460, SE 40530 Göteborg, Sweden c Finnish Institute of Marine Research, Box 2, FI 00561 Helsinki, Finland d Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution, Woods Hole, MA 02543, USA |
| Abstract: | Dynamical features of the East Greenland Current (EGC) are synthesized from a survey conducted by the Swedish icebreaker Oden during the International Arctic Ocean - 02 expedition (AO-02) in May 2002 with emphasis on the liquid freshwater transport and Polar Surface Water. The data include hydrography and lowered acoustic doppler current profiler (LADCP) velocities in eight transects along the EGC, from the Fram Strait in the north to the Denmark Strait in the south. The survey reveals a strong confinement of the low-salinity polar water in the EGC to the continental slope/shelf—a feature of relevance for the stability of the thermohaline circulation in the Arctic Mediterranean. The southward transport of liquid freshwater in the EGC was found to vary considerably between the sections, ranging between 0.01 and 0.1 Sverdrup. Computations based on geostrophic as well as LADCP velocities give a section-averaged southward freshwater transport of 0.06 Sverdrup in the EGC during May 2002. Furthermore, Oden data suggest that the liquid freshwater transport was as large north of the Fram Strait as it was south of the Denmark Strait. |
| Keywords: | East Greenland Current Late-winter observations Freshwater transport Polar Surface Water |
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