UFO ( 2nd cruise)

This project will maintain a high-resolution mooring array to quantitatively measure, for the first time, what appears to be the main conduit of dense water feeding the Faroe Bank Channel overflow. Accompanying shipboard surveys will trace the flow upstream to its source region(s), and also document its downstream evolution to where it overflows in the Faroe Bank Channel. We will augment the observations with modeling and simple theory to provide dynamical context. The work is part of a larger international program to address the pathways and mechanisms by which dense water is supplied to the eastern Greenland-Scotland Ridge, through coordinated observations and modeling. Researchers from seven institutions comprise the team, each bringing considerable resources and expertise. Together, this will fundamentally advance our understanding of this important component of the AMOC. The name of the collaborative program is “Upstream Pathways of the Faroe Overflow” (UFO).