NACLIM - Fluxes: Faroe Bank Channel overflow transport

Version 2  contains updated records of the Faroe Bank Channel Overflow, where the time series

has been extended until 17. May 2024. The metadata has also been updated accordingly, incl. new reference and acknowledgement

Description: Daily average of FBC overflow transport, estimated from an array of moored ADCPs.

Covering period: November 1995 – May 2024

Location: 61°30′ N   8°30′ W (map)  

Instruments: Moored acoustic Doppler current profilers (ADCP)

Variables: Flux - overflow transport (Sv)

The first version of the dataset dates back to 31 October 2014

This second version has been updated on 13 April 2026.

Publications linked to this dataset:

- The Coldest and Densest Overflow Branch Into the North Atlantic is Stable in Transport, but Warming,  Karin M. H. Larsen, Bogi Hansen, Hjálmar Hátún, Guðrið E. Johansen, Svein Østerhus, and Steffen M. Olsen, Geophysical Research Letters. PID: https://zenodo.org/records/13343494  DOI:        https://doi.org/10.1029/2024GL110097

- Hansen, B., Húsgarð Larsen, K. M., Hátún, H., and Østerhus, S.: A stable Faroe Bank Channel overflow 1995–2015, Ocean Sci., 12, 1205–1220, https://doi.org/10.5194/os-12-1205-2016, 2016.  doi: 10.5194/os-12-1205-2016

- Hansen and Østerhus, Faroe Bank Channel overflow 1995–2005, Progress in Oceanography, 2007. doi:10.1016/j.pocean.2007.09.004