| 来源类型 | Article |
| 规范类型 | 其他 |
| DOI | 10.1016/j.pocean.2007.06.005 |
| ISBN | 0079-6611 |
| The Greenland Sea tracer experiment 1996-2002: horizontal mixing and transport of Greenland Sea intermediate water. | |
| Messias, M-J; Watson, A J; Johannessen, T; Oliver, K I C; Olsson, K A; Fogelqvist, E; Olafsson, J; Bacon, S; Balle, J; Bergman, N; Budéus, G; Danielsen, M; Gascard, J-C; Jeansson, E; Olafsdottir, S R; Simonsen, K; Tanhua, T; Van Scoy, K; Ledwell, J R | |
| 发表日期 | 2008-07 |
| 出处 | Progress in Oceanography |
| 出版者 | Elsevier |
| 出版年 | 2008 |
| 页码 | 85-105 |
| 语种 | 英语 |
| 摘要 | In summer 1996, a tracer release experiment using sulphur hexafluoride (SF6) was launched in the intermediate-depth waters of the central Greenland Sea (GS), to study the mixing and ventilation processes in the region and its role in the northern limb of the Atlantic overturning circulation. Here we describe the hydrographic context of the experiment, the methods adopted and the results from the monitoring of the horizontal tracer spread for the 1996–2002 period documented by ∼10 shipboard surveys. The tracer marked “Greenland Sea Arctic Intermediate Water” (GSAIW). This was redistributed in the gyre by variable winter convection penetrating only to mid-depths, reaching at most 1800 m depth during the strongest event observed in 2002. For the first 18 months, the tracer remained mainly in the Greenland Sea. Vigorous horizontal mixing within the Greenland Sea gyre and a tight circulation of the gyre interacting slowly with the other basins under strong topographic influences were identified. We use the tracer distributions to derive the horizontal shear at the scale of the Greenland Sea gyre, and rates of horizontal mixing at ∼10 and ∼300 km scales. Mixing rates at small scale are high, several times those observed at comparable depths at lower latitudes. Horizontal stirring at the sub-gyre scale is mediated by numerous and vigorous eddies. Evidence obtained during the tracer release suggests that these play an important role in mixing water masses to form the intermediate waters of the central Greenland Sea. By year two, the tracer had entered the surrounding current systems at intermediate depths and small concentrations were in proximity to the overflows into the North Atlantic. After 3 years, the tracer had spread over the Nordic Seas basins. Finally by year six, an intensive large survey provided an overall synoptic documentation of the spreading of the tagged GSAIW in the Nordic Seas. A circulation scheme of the tagged water originating from the centre of the GS is deduced from the horizontal spread of the tracer. We present this circulation and evaluate the transport budgets of the tracer between the GS and the surroundings basins. The overall residence time for the tagged GSAIW in the Greenland Sea was about 2.5 years. We infer an export of intermediate water of GSAIW from the GS of 1 to 1.85 Sv (1 Sv = 106 m3 s−1) for the period from September 1998 to June 2002 based on the evolution of the amount of tracer leaving the GS gyre. There is strong exchange between the Greenland Sea and Arctic Ocean via Fram Strait, but the contribution of the Greenland Sea to the Denmark Strait and Iceland Scotland overflows is modest, probably not exceeding 6% during the period under study. |
| 特色分类 | GC0150 Physical oceanography |
| URL | http://sro.sussex.ac.uk/id/eprint/53910/ |
| 来源智库 | Science Policy Research Unit (United Kingdom) |
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| 资源类型 | 智库出版物 |
| 条目标识符 | http://119.78.100.153/handle/2XGU8XDN/467473 |
| 推荐引用方式 GB/T 7714 | Messias, M-J,Watson, A J,Johannessen, T,et al. The Greenland Sea tracer experiment 1996-2002: horizontal mixing and transport of Greenland Sea intermediate water.. 2008. |
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