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Abstract

GEOPHYSICAL RESEARCH LETTERS, VOL. 33, L21S07, 5 PP., 2006
doi:10.1029/2006GL026563

Variability of the Deep Western Boundary Current east of the Grand Banks

Friedrich A. Schott

Leibniz-Institut für Meereswissenschaften an der Universität Kiel, Kiel, Germany

Jürgen Fischer

Leibniz-Institut für Meereswissenschaften an der Universität Kiel, Kiel, Germany

Marcus Dengler

Leibniz-Institut für Meereswissenschaften an der Universität Kiel, Kiel, Germany

Rainer Zantopp

Leibniz-Institut für Meereswissenschaften an der Universität Kiel, Kiel, Germany

The Deep Western Boundary Current east of the Grand Banks has been observed during 1999–2005 by moored current-meter stations and shipboard current profiling sections. These recent observations can be compared with those of a WOCE moored array deployed during 1993–95 at the same location. Overall, the observations of Deep Water currents east of the Grand Banks reported here do not support suggestions of a basin-wide "slowdown" of the Atlantic Meridional Overturning Circulation.

Received 11 April 2006; accepted 30 August 2006; published 12 October 2006.

Citation: Schott, F. A., J. Fischer, M. Dengler, and R. Zantopp (2006), Variability of the Deep Western Boundary Current east of the Grand Banks, Geophys. Res. Lett., 33, L21S07, doi:10.1029/2006GL026563.

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