Modelling in the Labrador Sea
by Clark Pennelly The Labrador Sea in the northwestern Atlantic Ocean is a bit like salad dressing: the multiple water layers present will not happily mingle with others nearby, just…
Arctic freshwater storage and export – what will it mean for the AMOC?
by Helen Johnson with input from Sam Cornish and Yavor Kostov The first results from the OSNAP array, published this month in Science (https://science.sciencemag.org/content/363/6426/516), are incredibly exciting! Over the 21…
When science encounters art
by Femke de Jong Collaborations in science are great, especially within a group as closely knit as OSNAP, but sometimes the most surprising things come out of totally different kinds…
A long road
by Susan Lozier I have always been interested in advances in science that seemingly happen overnight. I love the stories of someone walking through the woods when a new idea…
IPCC special report 1.5C warming
by Ric Williams On 8 October a special report was released from the Intergovernmental Panel for Climate Change to highlight the impacts of global warming of 1.5oC above pre-industrial levels.…
MSM 74 – Blog Entry 5
Over the past week we made great progress in our journey of the sea, surveying an eddy off the west coast of Greenland with repeated ADCP and CTD surveys to…
Putting on the Grip – RV Armstrong
by Heather Furey Friday, June 15th. Men’s World Cup on the ship’s satellite television? Must be OSNAP time. It is still gray and cool outside, approx. 4C and 40F. But…
56 N, 52 W
by Marilena Oltmanns Blogpost auf Deutsch lesen The temperature time series from 4000 m depth in the central Labrador Sea spans two years and is characterized by small and big…
Glider missions in the Iceland Basin
by Xiaopei Lin The eastern subpolar North Atlantic has a special role in the Atlantic Overturning Circulation (AMOC) and global climate change. The waters in this regions are subtropical-origin warm…
All of science in one month
by Femke de Jong Science has many aspects. The collection of data on the process of region you are studying; the actual digging through the data to find out what…