News on OSNAP results
by Feili Li It seems to be a quiet year for OSNAP – just one OSNAP cruise took place last summer and so most of the moorings have stayed in…
Back to school and starting-up the new modelling sensitivity studies
by Laura Castro de la Guardia When I am ask by friends: What is it that I study? I generally give them the quick answer: I study biological-oceanography at the…
OSNAP Challenge
We want to bring everyone’s attention to the launch of the OSNAP Challenge located on this site under News and Events. Anyone is welcome to submit a prediction (or technically…
Structure of currents and their transport in the eastern Subpolar North Atlantic
By Elizabeth Comer As part of the OSNAP array, the Extended Ellett Line (EEL) is a repeat hydrographic section that crosses between Iceland and Scotland. This line measures part of…
Predicting the next 18 months of the AMOC at the RAPID line with a statistical model
by Nick Foukal, graduate student at Duke University As the RAPID team prepares to release the next 18 months of AMOC measurements from the mooring array at 26°N, I have…
Ice, Wind & Fury
By Marilena Oltmanns *This article was originally published in Oceanus magazine. Dead silence falls over Tasiilaq. Whatever mid-winter daylight appeared briefly in this village on the southeast coast of Greenland…
OSNAP Related Postdoctoral Position – Duke University
Open Postdoctoral Position at Duke University with Susan Lozier A postdoctoral research position is available in the Nicholas School of the Environment at Duke University. The researcher will take the…
OSNAP at AGU
OSNAP will be well represented at the 2014 AGU Fall Meeting! Many of the scientist who have written for the blog will be giving presentations on their work. This will…
Mysteries of the Deep Subpolar North Atlantic
by Amy Bower and Heather Furey Over the past several decades, oceanographers have constructed maps of the deep currents in the North Atlantic by piecing together measurements of currents and…
The case of the gigantic underwater cyclone
The largest water fall in the world is an underwater waterfall. Its just northwest of Iceland, and it begins with water spilling over an underwater ledge between Iceland and Greenland,…