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TI Origin, formation and variability of the Subpolar Mode Water located over the Reykjanes Ridge
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AF DE BOISSESON, Eric
   THIERRY, Virginie
   MERCIER, Herle
   CANIAUX, G.
   DESBRUYERES, Damien
AS 1:2;2:1;3:3;4:2;5:3;
FF 1:;2:PDG-ODE-LPO;3:;4:;5:;
C1 IFREMER, Ctr Brest, Lab Phys Oceans, CNRS IFREMER IRD UBO,UMR 6523, FR-29280 Plouzane, France.
   Meteo France, CNRM GAME, Meteo France CNRS URA 1357, Toulouse, France.
   CNRS, Lab Phys Oceans, UMR 6523, CNRS IFREMER IRD UBO, Plouzane, France.
C2 IFREMER, FRANCE
   METEO FRANCE, FRANCE
   CNRS, FRANCE
SI BREST
SE PDG-ODE-LPO
IN WOS Ifremer jusqu'en 2018
   copubli-france
IF 3.17
TC 20
TU Centre national de la recherche scientifique
   Institut de recherche pour le développement
   Institut français de recherche pour l'exploitation de la mer
   Université de Bretagne Occidentale
   École nationale de météorologie de Toulouse
UR https://archimer.ifremer.fr/doc/00114/22510/20192.pdf
LA English
DT Article
CR OVIDE 1
   OVIDE 2
   OVIDE 3
   OVIDE 4
   OVIDE 5
BO Thalassa
   Maria S. Merian
DE ;Iceland Basin;Lagrangian analysis;North Atlantic current;subpolar mode water;variability
AB The origin and formation of the Subpolar Mode Water (SPMW) located over the Reykjanes Ridge in the North-Atlantic Ocean and the variability of its properties over the period 1966-2004 are investigated through the use of a global eddy-permitting (1/4 degrees) ocean/sea-ice model and a Lagrangian analysis tool. The SPMW is fed by subtropical and subpolar waters advected by the branches of the North-Atlantic Current. The SPMW acquires its properties when its source waters enter the winter mixed layer in the Iceland Basin. The SPMW temperature variability is mainly explained by variations of the relative contributions of the subtropical and subpolar water transports to the total transport. Compared to the 1966-2004 mean, lower (higher) subtropical water relative transport contribution leads to colder (warmer) SPMW in the early 1990s (in the late 1960s and late 1990s). The intensity of the winter convection in the Iceland basin also influences the SPMW temperature through the amount of relatively cold intermediate waters of subtropical origin integrated in the SPMW layer. Strong convection partly explains the cold SPMW of the early 1990s. The large increase in the SPMW temperature in the late 1990s is due to both a decrease in the winter convection and an increase in the relative transport of the subtropical waters.
PY 2012
PD DEC
SO Journal Of Geophysical Research-oceans
SN 0148-0227
PU Amer Geophysical Union
VL 117
IS C12005
UT 000312094000001
BP 1
EP 14
DI 10.1029/2011JC007519
ID 22510
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