Nature Communications (Jul 2020)

Discovery of an unrecognized pathway carrying overflow waters toward the Faroe Bank Channel

  • Léon Chafik,
  • Hjálmar Hátún,
  • Joakim Kjellsson,
  • Karin Margretha H. Larsen,
  • Thomas Rossby,
  • Barbara Berx

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-020-17426-8
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 11, no. 1
pp. 1 – 10

Abstract

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The authors show that overflow waters flowing toward the Faroe Bank Channel can take a previously unidentified path to the Faroe-Shetland Channel where it joins an unrecognized deep-reaching jet located along its eastern rather than its western boundary.