Simulated North Atlantic-Nordic Seas water mass exchanges in an isopycnic coordinate OGCM

Details Simulated North Atlantic-Nordic Seas water mass exchanges in an isopycnic coordinate OGCM Simulated North Atlantic-Nordic Seas water mass exchanges in an isopycnic coordinate OGCM

May 2003

adsabs.harvard.edu/cgi-bin/nph-data_query?bibcode=2003georl..30j..43n&link_type=abstract

Geophysical Research Letters, Volume 30, Issue 10, pp. 43-1, CiteID 1536, DOI 10.1029/2002GL016597

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Oceanography: General: Climate And Interannual Variability (3309), Oceanography: General: Numerical Modeling, Information Related To Geographic Region: Arctic Region, Global Change: Oceans (4203), Global Change: Climate Dynamics (3309)

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The variability in the volume exchanges between the North Atlantic and the Nordic Seas during the last 50 years is investigated using a synoptic forced, global version of the Miami Isopycnic Coordinate Ocean Model (MICOM). The simulated volume fluxes agree with the existing observations. The net volume flux across the Faroe-Shetland Channel (FSC) is positively correlated with the net flux through the Denmark Strait (DS; R = 0.74 for 3 years low pass filtering), but negatively correlated with the net flux across the Iceland-Faroe Ridge (IFR; R = -0.80). For the Atlantic inflow across the FSC and IFR, the correlation is R = -0.59. For the transports through the FSC and DS, the simulation suggests that an atmospheric pattern resembling the North Atlantic Oscillation is the main driving force for the variations, involving Ekman fluxes and barotropic adjustment. The model also shows a 0.7 Sv reduction of the Atlantic inflow to the Nordic Seas since the late 50's.

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