Greenland Current
The Greenland Current is an ocean current . It is divided into the East Greenland Current and the West Greenland Current.
The East Greenland Current is made up of very different water masses. It begins in the Fram Strait in northeast Greenland , where cold and low-salt polar water flows south from the Arctic Ocean and also transports large amounts of sea ice . Atlantic water, which previously flowed northwards as the warm West Spitsbergen Current and partly circulated through the Arctic Ocean and cooled down in the process, also reaches the East Greenland Current through the Fram Strait . Further south near Iceland the warmer water of the Irmingerstrom mixes in ; overall, however, the East Greenland Current remains a rather cold current.
After the flow around Cape Farewell at the southern tip of Greenland, the water masses as West Greenland current transported northward, where they keep a relatively warm current, the west coast of Greenland largely free of ice. Then the water flows as Labrador Current at the American Labrador -Küste south again.
The Greenland Current is part of the small Atlantic current ring, consisting of the Greenland Current, Labrador Current, Northeast Atlantic Current and Irminger Current.
Individual evidence
- ↑ Schultz et al., Sporthochseeschifferschein, Delius Klasing, ISBN 978-3-7688-1820-9
Web links
- The East Greenland Current ( Memento from June 11, 2007 in the Internet Archive ), Institute for Oceanography of the University of Hamburg