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Large Scale Salinity Anomaly Has Triggered the Recent Decline of Winter Convection in the Greenland Sea

Lucas Almeida

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The Greenland Sea is a key region for open ocean convection and ventilation, which exhibit a large variability with periods of strong convection and shutdowns. After a long period of weak winter convection (from the 1970s to the early 1990s), a recovery has been reported, beginning in the 1990s and intensifying in the early 2000s until 2013. Using ISAS, an optimal interpolation product based on Argo observations, we document a recent significant weakening of deep convection between 2014 and 2020, accompanied by a continuous warming of the mixed layer but also a freshening after 2014. These hydrographic changes likely increase the ocean stratification and precondition the shutdown of winter convection. We suggest that these property changes result from a shift of the large scale atmospheric circulation, affecting the source of Atlantic Water to the Nordic seas, causing a freshening of about −0.1 g kg−1 that spreads into the Greenland Sea.
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hal-04334640 , version 1 (14-12-2023)

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Lucas Almeida, Nicolas Kolodziejczyk, Camille Lique. Large Scale Salinity Anomaly Has Triggered the Recent Decline of Winter Convection in the Greenland Sea. Geophysical Research Letters, 2023, 50 (21), e2023GL104766 (10p.). ⟨10.1029/2023GL104766⟩. ⟨hal-04334640⟩
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