The overflow flux west of Iceland: Variability, origins and forcing

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  • The general introduction to this volume makes it clear that the overflow and descent of cold, dense water from the sills of the Denmark Strait and the Faroe-Shetland Channel into the North Atlantic represent key components of the global thermohaline circulation, ventilating and renewing the deep oceans and driving the abyssal limb of the Atlantic overturning cell. Though it is the whole full-latitude system of exchange between the Arctic and Atlantic Ocean that has to be addressed if we are to understand the full subtlety of the role of our Northern Seas in climate, it is their importance to climate that has justified the continued direct measurement of the overflow transport through Denmark Strait and its hydrographic characteristics until the longer-term variability of both can be understood. © 2008 Springer Netherlands.
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