[PDF] Deep Water In The Norwegian Sea eBook

Author : Howard Freeland
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
Page : 691 pages
File Size : 14,94 MB
Release : 2012-12-06
Category : Science
ISBN : 1461331056

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Fjords are deep, glacia11y carved estuaries that are pecu1iar to certain coast1ines, and have severa1 characteristics that dist inguish them from sha110wer embayments. At higher latitudes they indent the western coast1ines of Scandinavia, North and South America, and New Zea1and. They are a1so a common feature of much of the arctic coast1ine. The papers contained in this vo1ume were presented at a workshop funded by the NATO Advanced Studies Institute in Victoria, British Co1umbia. It may seem curious to the reader that this specia1 c1ass of estuaries shou1d have attracted an international gathering of oceanographers from severa1 different discip1ines. The reas on for this interest stems from both practica1 and scientific considerations. On the one hand, fjords are a feature common to the coast1ines of severa1 countries that depend heavi1y on the oceans for communication, fisheries and other resources. The impact of man's activities on these coasts has created a demand for new know1edge of the physica1, bio10gica1 and chemica1 aspects of fjords. Sometimes man's inf1uence on the ocean is intentiona1 as, for examp1e, in the artificia1 contro1 of ice cover; often it is the more insidious bui1d-up of toxic wastes that is of concern. These prob1ems are particu1ar1y acute where the conf1icting demands of fisheries, industria1 deve10pment and re creation meet in a sing1e fjord; and indeed, this is a common occurence a10ng severa1 of the fjords in Scandinavia and Canada.

Author : Kenneth A. Countryman
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Page : 43 pages
File Size : 50,66 MB
Release : 1969
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Oceanographic data were collected during a cruise of USS EDISTO (AGB 2) in the Norwegian Sea area during the summer of 1963. General oceanographic features were found to agree with previous descriptions of the area. Slight differences in current patterns as presented by recent investigators, mainly in the branching of the Norwegian Current, also were substantiated by 1963 EDISTO data. Norwegian Sea Deep Water temperatures were warmer than those observed earlier in the century. This warming trend also has been reported by recent investigators. Norwegian Sea Deep Water was found overflowing the Iceland-Faeroe Ridge into the North Atlantic Ocean. This overflow was found to be a mixture of 10 parts Norwegian Sea Deep Water to 1 part Atlantic Water. Nutrient relationships were different in the various water masses. Norwegian Sea Deep Water was noticeably higher in reactive phosphorus and reactive silicate than were the surface waters. (Author).

Author : Priska Schäfer
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
Page : 520 pages
File Size : 12,31 MB
Release : 2001-04-02
Category : Science
ISBN : 9783540672319

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The northern North Atlantic is one of the regions most sensitive to past and present global changes. This book integrates the results of an interdisciplinary project studying the properties of the Greenland-Iceland-Norwegian Seas and the processes of pelagic and benthic particle formation, particle transport, and deposition in the deep-sea sediments. Ice-related and biogeochemical processes have been investigated to decipher the spatial and temporal variability of the production and fate of organic carbon in this region. Isotopic stratigraphy, microfossil assemblages and paleotemperatures are combined to reconstruct paleoceanographic conditions and to model past climatic changes in the Late Quaternary. The Greenland-Iceland-Norwegian Seas can now be considered one of the best studied subbasins of the world`s oceans.