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View of open ocean and sky forward of R/V Knorr.

View of open ocean and sky forward of R/V Knorr.
View of open ocean and sky forward of R/V Knorr.
View of open ocean and sky forward of R/V Knorr.
View of open ocean and sky forward of R/V Knorr.
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Torres, Dan
View of open ocean and sky forward of R/V Knorr.
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11/22/2011
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Images are from Dan Torres taken on Robert Pickart cruise Knorr KN203-II.
This project investigates the sources of water feeding the Denmark Strait Overflow Water. It is a collaborative field program between the Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution (WHOI), the Marine Research Institute of Reykjavik (MRI), the University of Bergen (UIB), and the Netherlands Institute for Sea Research (NIOZ). Our approach is to deploy a year-long set of moorings from August 2011 to August 2012, and carry out a shipboard hydrographic/velocity survey of the region during the mooring deployment and recovery cruises. Moorings will be maintained upstream of the Denmark Strait sill in the major components of the circulation, as well as in the overflow water at the sill itself (see the attached figure showing the mooring locations). The main scientific objective of the program is to quantify the different water mass components, transports, and pathways feeding the overflow water, and to understand the dynamics of the warm-to-cold conversion of water that forms the overflow.
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In August 2011, research vessel Knorr left Iceland for the Denmark Strait to deploy a dozen moorings that will be collected one year later. Instruments on the moorings help WHOI scientists and their international collaborators track currents that replenish warm, north-flowing Gulf Stream wate with cold, dense, south-flowing water. Understanding these currents helps scientists better understand how changes in their circulation affect the Atlantic--and global--climate system.
Photo by Dan Torres
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