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Close ✕Denmark Strait Sill
The shallowest constriction of the Denmark Strait between Greenland and Iceland, about 620 m deep, and the single largest gateway through which dense water from the Nordic seas enters the…
66.0, -27.0 · approximate · permanent feature; moored overflow monitoring since the 1990s
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- is passes through of North Atlantic Deep Water (NADW) — The densest component enters the deep Atlantic by spilling across the Denmark Strait sill at about 3.2 Sv.
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