High-Frequency Variability in the North Icelandic Jet

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2018
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Abstract
We describe the high-frequency variability in the North Icelandic Jet (NIJ) on the Iceland Slope using data from the densely instrumented Kögur mooring array deployed upstream of the Denmark Strait sill from September 2011 to July 2012.Significant sub-8-day variability is ubiquitous in all moorings from the Iceland slope with a dominant period of 3.6 days.We attribute this variability to topographic Rossby waves on the Iceland slope with a wavelength of 62 ± 3 km and a phase velocity of 17.3 ± 0.8 km/day -1 directed downslope (-9 • relative to true-north).We test the theoretical dispersion relation for these waves against our observations and find good agreement between the predicted and measured direction of phase propagation.We additionally calculate a theoretical group velocity of 36 km day -1 directed almost directly up-slope ( 106• relative to true-north) that agrees well with the propagation speed and direction of observed energy pulses.We use an inverse wave tracing model to show that this wave energy is generated locally, offshore of the array, and does not emanate from the upstream or downstream directions along the Iceland slope.It is hypothesized that either the meandering Separated East Greenland Current located seaward of the NIJ or intermittent aspiration of dense water into the Denmark Strait Overflow are the drivers of the topographic waves.
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Authors B. E. Harden, Robert S. Pickart
Journal journal of marine research
Year 2018
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10.1357/002224018824845910
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https://doi.org/10.1357/002224018824845910
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