Publications
THOR Deliverables (project month 12)
D05 (WP 2.1): Initial evaluation of ocean reanalyses and simulations of THC-related variables, from approximately 1960-present, against independent observations (01.2010)
D06 (WP 3.1): Reference data set for pre-existing data on properties and fluxes through key sections: Greenland-Scotland Ridge, Deep Western Boundary Current and across 26.5° N (12.2009)
D07 (WP 3.2): Reference data set for pre-existing data on properties, water mass renewal in the Labrador and Irminger Seas (12.2009)
D08 (WP 3.3): Summary data set for historical overflow entrainment studies (12.2009)
D09 (WP 5.2): Report on test data set experiments from coupled model (12.2009)
Reg. the ongoing D04 (WP 2.1) activity: The team has discussed and agreed to make the results available in terms of ocean-state metrics as presented in the D05 report. It may however be possible to upload these time-series to the THOR data site – which may also serve the observationalists of CT3. The team has not fixed the regularity of updates of individual systems yet which is not requested and described in the DoW.
Peer reviewed articles:
Eldevik, T. Nilsen, J.E.Ø., Iovino, D. , Olsson, K.A., Sandø, A.B. and Drange, H. 2009: Observed sources and variability of Nordic seas overflow, Nature Geoscience, 2, doi:10.1038/NGEO581
Fer, I., Voet, G., Seim, K.M. Rudels, B. and Latarius, K. 2010, Intense mixing of the Faroe Bank Channel Overflow (submitted to Geophys. Res. Lett.)
Hansen, B., Hátún, H., Kristiansen, R., Olsen, S.M., and Østerhus, S., 2010, Outflow from the Nordic Seas controls heat and salt import across the Iceland-Faroe Ridge, submitted to Nature Geoscience
Hughes, Holliday, Colbourne, Ozhigin, Valdimarsson, Østerhus, and Wiltshire, K. 2009. Comparison of in situ time-series of temperature with gridded sea surface temperature datasets in the North Atlantic. ICES J. of Marine Science, 66: doi: 10.1093/icesjms/fsp041. http://icesjms.oxfordjournals.org/cgi/content/abstract/fsp041?ijkey=cPH1tzEu30GbY0s&keytype=ref
Paka, V.T., Rudels, B, Quadfasel, D and Zhurbas, V. 2009, Measuring of turbulence in a strong near bottom current of the Denmark Strait. Doklady RAS, Earth Science (in Russian)
Voet, G. & Quadfasel, D., 2010, Entrainment in the Denmark Strait overflow plume by meso-scale eddies (submitted to Ocean Science)
Posters
Nunes, N., Østerhus, S. and THOR project partners, 2009: THOR: long term observations of MOC variability in the North Atlantic. IAMAS, IAPSO and IACS Joint Assembly 2009 (MOCA-09), Montreal, Canada, 19-29.07.2009 (Poster).
Nunes, N., Østerhus, S. and THOR project partners, 2009: THOR: long term observations of MOC variability in the North Atlantic. OceanObs'09, Venice, Italy, 21-25.09.2009 (Poster).