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Deep convection in the Greenland, the Labrador and the Irminger seas, as part of the global ocean conveyor belt (the Atlantic Meridional Overturning Circulation), is an important component of the climate system of the Earth. In situ investigations of interannual variability of the convection depth are challenging due to a small size of convective cells and interannual variations of their locations within the basins. In this work, using ARMOR data-set, which combines in situ and satellite data, the areas of the most frequent occurrence of deep convection in the North Atlantic are refined. It is shown that in the Labrador and the Irminger seas, deep convection (exceeding 1000 m) can develop in any point of a single region, covering almost all the water area of the seas. Within this region there are three sub-regions of the most frequent development of the deep convection. In addition to two traditionally allocated areas in each of the seas, the deep convection often occurs also at the junction of the two seas, south of Cape Farwell. Convection typically reaches its maximum depth in March. In the Greenland Sea deep convection occurs most often in the central and the south-eastern parts of the sea, as well as in the Boreas basin. Convection typically reaches its maximum depth in April.

Переведенное названиеThermohaline convection in the subpolar seas of the north atlantic from satellite and in situ observations. Part 1: Localization of the deep convection sites
Язык оригиналарусский
Страницы (с-по)184-194
Число страниц11
ЖурналSovremennye Problemy Distantsionnogo Zondirovaniya Zemli iz Kosmosa
Том15
Номер выпуска7
DOI
СостояниеОпубликовано - 1 янв 2018

    Области исследований

  • Data-set with assimilation of satellite data, Deep convection, The Greenland Sea, The Irminger Sea, The Labrador Sea

    Предметные области Scopus

  • Прикладные компьютерные науки
  • Компьютерные технологии в науках о земле
  • Компьютерные сети и коммуникации

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