Western Valley OverfloW

Country

Denmark/Greenland/Faroe Islands

Regions studied

Parameter groups measured/observed/modelled

Climate change effects

Keywords

Updated 2019-05-29

The WOW project is a cooperation between Havstovan (Faroe Marine Research Institute, HAV) and the Danish Meteorological Institute (DMI) to 1) measure the overflow of cold water from the Arctic into the rest of the World Ocean through the Western Valley of the Iceland-Faroe Ridge, to 2) allow the effects of this flow to be adequately simulated in climate model projections of the thermohaline circulation and the heat transport towards the Arctic, and to 3) design a low-cost monitoring system for this flow.

This is not a National Implementation Plan (NIP) project

http://www.hav.fo

Status: Completed
Project time span: 2016 - 2018
Data collection: 2016 - 2017
Data processing: 2017 - 2018
Data reporting: 2017 - 2018

Contact information

Contact person

Karin Margretha H. Larsen

Address

Havstovan

Noatun 1

P.O. Box 3051

FO-110 Torshavn

Faroe Islands

Phone

+298 353900 (Institute)/ +298 353906 (direct)

Email

of.vah@lnirak

Parameters and Media

Parameter groups measured/observed/modelled

Climate change effects

Media sampled/studied/modelled

Geography

Regions studied: Climate change effects; Climate change effects
Other areas: Iceland-Faroe Ridge
Stations or areas where observations are made: Bottom Temp 64° 29.13'N 12° 8.19'W Bottom depth: 270m (data uploaded)
ADCP 64° 26.70'N 12° 03.760'W Bottom depth: 407m (recovered)
Bottom Temp 64° 23.86'N 11° 57.51'W Bottom depth: 425m (data uploaded)

Data availability

Are data archived or planned to be archived at an AMAP Thematic Data Centre?

References to key publications (or planned publications) and data reports

Hansen B., Larsen K. M. H. , Quadfasel D., Jochumsen K. 2017. Historical oceanographic observations in the Western Valley. Havstovan no. 17-02. Technical Report. 11 p. http://www.hav.fo/PDF/Ritgerdir/2017/TecRep1702.pdf.

Hansen B., Larsen K. M. H. , Kristiansen R., Mortensen E., Quadfasel D., Jochumsen K., Østerhus S. 2017. Observations from the WOW field experiment in the Western Valley 2016-2017. Havstovan no. 17-03. Technical Report. 15 p. http://www.hav.fo/PDF/Ritgerdir/2017/TecRep1703.pdf

Hansen, B., Larsen, K. M. H., Olsen, S. M., Quadfasel, D., Jochumsen, K., and Østerhus, S.: Overflow of cold water across the Iceland–Faroe Ridge through the Western Valley, Ocean Sci., 14, 871-885, https://doi.org/10.5194/os-14-871-2018, 2018.

Samples/specimens archived in specimen banks?: No

Methods & Procedures

Not specified

Additional Information

Is this a bi- AND multi-lateral project (i.e. a project involving cooperation between different countries)?: Yes
Other institutes involved in the project: Project partners include the Danish Meteorologial Institute
Is this project reporting to other organizations/programmes?: Also reporting to H2020 Blue-Action project
Other related projects: Blue-Action project (The European Union’s Horizon 2020 research and innovation programme, grant agreement No 727852) http://www.blue-action.eu.