Abstract
The contribution of brine-enriched bottom water from Arctic shelves to intermediate and deep water masses of the adjacent Arctic Ocean or the Nordic Seas is a widely discussed topic in Arctic Oceanography. This paper presents an overview of process-oriented modelling which was conducted to deepen our understanding of oceanic convection and its role in water mass formation. It arrives at a conceptual picture of the convective formation of bottom water masses in Arctic shelf seas as a consequence of ice-ocean interactions and considers the role of sediments in slope convection. To investigate and discuss the processes which take part in transformation, production and export of dense shelf water masses a hierarchy of numerical models of different type and spatial resolution was applied. The models cover spatial scales from well below the internal Rossby radius of deformation up to the mesoscale.
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