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Cloud encased island in the Faroe Islands.

Cloud encased island in the Faroe Islands.
Cloud encased island in the Faroe Islands.
Cloud encased island in the Faroe Islands.
Cloud encased island in the Faroe Islands.
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Torres, Dan
Cloud encased island in the Faroe Islands.
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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 the fall of 2011, the WHOI-operated research vessel Knorr sailed past the Faroe Islands east of Iceland, an ideal home for Beowolf's nemesis. The team on board, led by WHOI physical oceanographer Bob Pickart, included scientists from Iceland, Norway, and the Netherlands. The research cruise confirmed the existence of a previously unknown ocean current called the North Icelandic Jet that turns out to play an important role in driving the lower limb of the Ocean Conveyor, the global ocean circulation system that helps regulate Earth's climate.
Photo by Dan Torres
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