Cruise Report LANCE 18/2005

Dense water masses transported southward along the east coast of Greenland in the East Greenland Current (EGC) form the largest contribution to the Denmark Strait Overflow..

The DW range in our work includes four deep (Greenland Sea Deep Water (GSDW), Norwegian Sea Deep Water (NSDW), Eurasian Basin Deep Water (EBDW), and Canadian Basin Deep Water

The majority of water that enters the Arctic Ocean does so over the large shelves. The warm salt y Atlantic Water that flows into the Arctic Ocean through the Barents Sea,

Also the flow structure across the sections obtained from hydrography-based baroclinic calculations, Vessel Mounted ADCP and LADCP measurements are similar (Fig.6), however

Polar Water (PW) ,Greenland Sea Arctic Surface Water (GS-ASW), East Greenland Shelf Bottom Water (EGS-BW), Re- circulating Atlantic Water (RAW), upper Greenland Sea Arctic

We then transitioned into the hydrographic phase of the cruise and occupied a set of high-resolution CTD/velocity/water- sample transects across the East Greenland shelf and

Commercially important fish species include North- east Arctic cod, Northeast Arctic haddock, redfish (mainly deep-sea redfish, Sebastes mentella), Greenland halibut, long rough

Bear Island and flows parallel to the Atlantic Water toward West Spitsbergen, while the bottom water sinks into the intermediate or deep water masses in the Norwegian