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Wadhams et al. 2002

Wadhams, P., Holfort, J., Hansen, E. and Wilkinson, J.P. (2002). A deep convective chimney in the winter greenland sea. Geophysical Research Letters 29: doi: 10.1029/2001GL014306. issn: 0094-8276.

During two cruises to the Greenland Sea in winter 2001 a narrow convective chimney extending from the surface to a depth exceeding 2400 meters was discovered and mapped in detail. The feature was observed to be stable over a period of a month and its centre moved only 700 m in that time; its diameter was only 10 km. At a time when deep convection is thought to have ceased in the Greenland Sea the existence of this feature is a challenge to our understanding of the causes and impacts of open ocean winter convection.

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Keywords
Oceanography, Physical, Eddies and mesoscale processes, Oceanography, General, Arctic and Antarctic oceanography, Information Related to Geographic Region, Arctic region, Oceanography, Physical, Upper ocean processes

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Geophysical Research Letters
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