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    Liquid freshwater transport estimates from the East Greenland Current based on continuous measurements north of Denmark Strait

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    2017-01-10
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    de Steur, Laura  Concept link
    Pickart, Robert S.  Concept link
    Macrander, Andreas  Concept link
    Våge, Kjetil  Concept link
    Harden, Benjamin E.  Concept link
    Jónsson, Steingrímur  Concept link
    Østerhus, Svein  Concept link
    Valdimarsson, Héðinn  Concept link
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    https://hdl.handle.net/1912/8864
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    https://doi.org/10.1002/2016JC012106
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    10.1002/2016JC012106
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     Freshwater; East Greenland Current; Mooring observations; Time series 
    Abstract
    Liquid freshwater transports of the shelfbreak East Greenland Current (EGC) and the separated EGC are determined from mooring records from the Kögur section north of Denmark Strait between August 2011 and July 2012. The 11 month mean freshwater transport (FWT), relative to a salinity of 34.8, was 65 ± 11 mSv to the south. Approximately 70% of this was associated with the shelfbreak EGC and the remaining 30% with the separated EGC. Very large southward FWT ranging from 160 mSv to 120 mSv was observed from September to mid-October 2011 and was foremost due to anomalously low upper-layer salinities. The FWT may, however, be underestimated by approximately 5 mSv due to sampling biases in the upper ocean. The FWT on the Greenland shelf was estimated using additional inshore moorings deployed from 2012 to 2014. While the annual mean ranged from nearly zero during the first year to 18 mSv to the south during the second year, synoptically the FWT on the shelf can be significant. Furthermore, an anomalous event in autumn 2011 caused the shelfbreak EGC to reverse, leading to a large reduction in FWT. This reversed circulation was due to the passage of a large, 100 km wide anticyclone originating upstream from the shelfbreak. The late summer FWT of −131 mSv is 150% larger than earlier estimates based on sections in the late-1990s and early-2000s. This increase is likely the result of enhanced freshwater flux from the Arctic Ocean to the Nordic Seas during the early 2010s.
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    Author Posting. © American Geophysical Union, 2017. This article is posted here by permission of American Geophysical Union for personal use, not for redistribution. The definitive version was published in Journal of Geophysical Research: Oceans 122 (2017): 93-109, doi:10.1002/2016JC012106.
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