Does the East Greenland Current exist in the northern Fram Strait?

Richter, Maren Elisabeth; von Appen, Wilken-Jon; Wekerle, Claudia

doi:https://doi.org/10.5194/os-14-1147-2018

Articles | Volume 14, issue 5

https://doi.org/10.5194/os-14-1147-2018

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https://doi.org/10.5194/os-14-1147-2018

© Author(s) 2018. This work is distributed under
the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 License.

Articles | Volume 14, issue 5

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27 Sep 2018

Research article |

| 27 Sep 2018

Does the East Greenland Current exist in the northern Fram Strait?

Maren Elisabeth Richter, Wilken-Jon von Appen, and Claudia Wekerle

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RC1: 'Review of Richter et al.', Anonymous Referee #1, 28 Jun 2018
- AC1: 'Anonymous Referee #1 - author response', Maren Elisabeth Richter, 02 Aug 2018
RC2: 'Review of Richter et al.', Anonymous Referee #2, 05 Jul 2018
- AC2: 'Anonymous referee no 2 - author reply', Maren Elisabeth Richter, 02 Aug 2018
AC2: 'Anonymous referee no 2 - author reply', Maren Elisabeth Richter, 02 Aug 2018

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ED: Publish subject to technical corrections (31 Aug 2018) by Matthew Hecht

AR by Maren Elisabeth Richter on behalf of the Authors (06 Sep 2018) Author's response Manuscript

Short summary

In the Fram Strait, Arctic Ocean outflow is joined by Atlantic Water (AW) that has not flowed through the Arctic Ocean. The confluence creates a density gradient which steepens and draws closer to the east Greenland shelf break from N to S. This brings the warm AW closer to the shelf break. South of 79° N, AW has reached the shelf break and the East Greenland Current has formed. When AW reaches the Greenland shelf it may propagate through troughs to glacier termini and contribute to glacier melt.