Irminger Current information

The Irminger Current is a north Atlantic ocean current setting westward off the southwest coast of Iceland. It is composed of relatively warm and saline...

branches include the Irminger Current and the Norwegian Current. Driven by the global thermohaline circulation, the North Atlantic Current is part of the wind-driven...

after Danish vice-admiral Carl Ludvig Christian Irminger (1802–1888), after whom the Irminger Current was also named. The northern limit is the Greenland–Iceland...

Ingeborg Plockross Irminger (1872–1962), Danish artist, wife of Valdemar Valdemar Irminger (1850–1938), Danish painter Irminger Current Irminger Sea This page...

Atlantic Ocean current Irminger Current – North Atlantic current setting westward off the southwest coast of Iceland Labrador Current – Cold current in the Atlantic...

combined influences of Atlantic water from the Irminger Current (IC) and polar water from the East Greenland Current. Paleoclimatology records derived from foraminifera...

latitude just south of the Arctic Circle. This effect is aided by the Irminger Current, which also helps to moderate the island's temperature. The weather...

11°W as a branch of the East Greenland Current that merges with the Irminger Current flowing southward until it meets the northeast part of Iceland. It...

Irminger Rings (IRs) are mesoscale (15-50 kilometers) ocean eddies that are formed off the West coast of Greenland and travel southwestwards through the...

years. Both the DSOW and ISOW flow around the Irminger Basin and Labrador Sea in a deep boundary current. Leaving the Greenland Sea with 2.5 Sv, its flow...

of Greenland and the incursion of relatively warm waters from the Irminger Current into that area. Some evidence from tagging data indicates individuals...

the Irminger Sea, into the eastern North Atlantic by means of the deep North Atlantic current, and meridionally via the Deep Western Boundary Current. Oceanographer...

Atlantic Ocean Irminger Current – A north Atlantic current setting westward off the southwest coast of Iceland Labrador Current – A cold current in the Atlantic...

operates the Endurance Array. There are two global arrays currently in operation (Global Irminger Sea Array and Global Station Papa Array). The Argentine...

flow into the Iceland Sea from both the southwest as a branch of the Irminger Current, and from the east originating from the Norwegian Sea which then also...

Sea – 841,000 km2 Andaman Sea – 797,700 km2 Laccadive Sea – 786,000 km2 Irminger Sea – 780,000 km2 Solomon Sea – 720,000 km2 Mozambique Channel – 700,000 km2...

Greenland Current originates from the movement of Atlantic water flowing around the southern point of Greenland caused by the East Greenland and Irminger currents...

strait connects the Greenland Sea, an extension of the Arctic Ocean, to the Irminger Sea, a part of the Atlantic Ocean. It stretches 480 kilometres (300 mi)...

north by the North Atlantic Current, on the east by the Canary Current, and on the south by the North Atlantic Equatorial Current, the four together forming...

originating from the Nordic Seas is colder and consequently more dense than the Irminger Sea to the south of the strait. At the Greenland–Iceland Rise – an elevated...

of the region are the West Spitsbergen Current on the east side of the strait and the East Greenland Current on the west. Fram Strait is the northernmost...

Mozambique. A warm current, the Mozambique Current, flows in a southward direction in the channel, leading into the Agulhas Current off the east coast...

Glacier are due to the arrival of relatively warm water originating from the Irminger Sea near Iceland. Evidence also exists for a deep subglacial trench beneath...

: 1458  The East Australian Current is a return of the westward-flowing Pacific Equatorial Current (Pacific South Equatorial Current). At the juncture between...

of Timor in the Pacific theatre of World War II. The Timor Current is an oceanic current that runs south-west in the Timor Sea between the Malay Archipelago...

205 million km2 Argentine Sea – 1 million km2 Labrador Sea – 841,000 km2 Irminger Sea – 780,000 km2 Baffin Bay – 689,000 km2 North Sea – 575,000 km2 Black...

also brushed by the two main currents which surround the Corsica island: the Western Corsica Current and the Tyrrenian current that reaches the Corsica Channel...

shown heights of 5.89 m at the same time. Similarly, the speed of the current has been recorded between 1.5 to 2.5 knots at the entrance and 3 to 5 knots...

bay following the continental shelf's border anti-clockwise (the Rennell Current), keeping temperatures moderate all year long. The main cities on the shores...