Jens Meincke

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors describe the Great Salinity Anomaly as an advective event, traceable around the Atlantic subpolar gyre for over 14 years from its origins north of Iceland in the mid-to-late 1960s until its return to the Greenland Sea in 1981-1982.

TL;DR: The authors reviewed the recent history of these changes showing that the major convective centres of the Greenland- and Labrador Seas are currently at opposite convective extrema in our postwar record, with vertical exchange at the former site limited to 1000 m or so, but with Labrador Sea convection reaching deeper than previously observed, to over 2300 m.

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors investigated the response of the Arctic Ocean to annual and longer-period changes in the North Atlantic oscillation (NAO), focusing on the winter season when the forcing is maximal and on the postwar period.

TL;DR: It is shown, through the analysis of long hydrographic records, that the system of overflow and entrainment that ventilates the deep Atlantic has steadily changed over the past four decades, and this changes have already led to sustained and widespread freshening of the deep ocean.

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors estimate that around 51 mSv of freshwater from the Nordic Sea flows south to the deep Atlantic in the dense water overflows leaving an assumed balance of 151mSv to leave the Nordic Seas in the upper water export through Denmark Strait.