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01/08/2013 17:07

Arctic freshwater flux at Denmark Strait

The East Greenland Current carries cold and fresh polar water and sea ice from the Arctic into the North Atlantic Ocean where it has the potential to modify density contrasts. A portion of this freshwater, however, is mixed into the Nordic Seas as it flows southward and only a currently unknown fraction continues into the Atlantic. The program described here is meant to determine the latter net freshwater flux at approximately 68ºN, just north of Denmark Strait.

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