Abstract: This paper demonstrates skill in simple linear inversion solutions in two ways: first, qualitatively, by showing that the inversion method can put in place a known feature of the deep circulation of the study region when ...

Abstract: Quasi-meridional flux estimates for volume, heat, and freshwater, with computed errors, in the region of the subpolar gyre of the North Atlantic between Cape Farewell and Ireland between 53° and 60°N are presented. The ...

Abstract: The authors review the procedure for the direct calculation of oceanic heat flux from hydrographic measurements and set out the full ?recipe? that is required.

Abstract: An analysis is made of data from 30 Aanderaa recording current meters (RCMs) set on nine moorings located east of Cape Farewell, the southern tip of Greenland. The purpose of the measurements was to allow for the estimation ...

Abstract: The authors examine changes in the salinity of the International Association for the Physical Sciences of the Ocean standard seawater (SSW) as used in seven cruises between 1991 and 1997. Ten batches of SSW were used during ...

Abstract: The general circulation of the Labrador Sea is studied with a dataset of 53 surface drifters drogued at 15 m and several hydrographic sections done in May 1997. Surface drifters indicate three distinct speed regimes: fast ...

Abstract: Standard seawater (SSW) has been employed by oceanographers as a reference material in the determination of salinity for over a century. In all that time, this is the first study to determine the uncertainty of the SSW ...

Abstract: While reasonable knowledge of multidecadal Arctic freshwater storage variability exists, we have little knowledge of Arctic freshwater exports on similar time scales. A hydrographic time series from the Labrador Shelf, ...

Abstract: ver Arctic sea ice, pressure ridges and floe and melt pond edges all introduce discrete obstructions to the flow of air or water past the ice and are a source of form drag. In current climate models form drag is only ...

Abstract: Vertical mixing in the bottom boundary layer and pycnocline of the Laptev Sea is evaluated from a rapidly sampled 12-h time series of microstructure temperature, conductivity, and shear observations collected under 100% ...