Fig. 1: Oxygen concentration and main circulation in the North Atlantic Ocean.
From: Subpolar gyre decadal variability explains the recent oxygenation in the Irminger Sea
Mean oxygen concentration averaged between 900 and 1100 m depth as computed from ISAS (color-coded). The location of the Argo profiles used in this study is represented by black dots within the bathymetric contour of 2700 m that we used to define the core of the Irminger Sea (gray contour). The gray line shows the average location of the hydrographic sections (OVIDE, AR07E, A01E). The black, thick curve represents the surface current, and the main currents in the region, i.e. the Eastern Greenland current (EGC), the Irminger Current (IC) and the Labrador Current (LC), and it is superimposed to the mean circulation at 1000 m (computed from ANDRO). The dashed rectangle represents the region where we average the Wind Stress Curl (WSC), the relative vorticity on the ocean circulation at 1000 m and the detrended annual-mean Sea Level Anomaly (SLA) (Fig. 5).
