Articles | Volume 13, issue 6
https://doi.org/10.5194/os-13-947-2017
https://doi.org/10.5194/os-13-947-2017
Research article
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22 Nov 2017
Research article |  | 22 Nov 2017

Storm-induced water dynamics and thermohaline structure at the tidewater Flade Isblink Glacier outlet to the Wandel Sea (NE Greenland)

Sergei Kirillov, Igor Dmitrenko, Søren Rysgaard, David Babb, Leif Toudal Pedersen, Jens Ehn, Jørgen Bendtsen, and David Barber

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This paper reports the analysis of 3-week oceanographic data obtained in the front of Flade Isblink Glacier in northeast Greenland. The major focus of research is considering the changes of water dynamics and the altering of temperature and salinity vertical distribution occurring during the storm event. We discuss the mechanisms that are responsible for the formation of two-layer circulation cell and release of cold and relatively fresh sub-glacial waters into the ocean.