East Greenland Current

North Atlantic Ocean. Surface samples in north Atlantic waters were collected at 20 stations in Tuly-August 1983. The area is influenced mainly by the Gulfstream, the North Atlantic Drift and the much colder East Greenland Current. The surface samples can be grouped into fives areas with common characteristics of temperature, salinity, phosphate and silicate concentrations, Fig. 4 (Kramer, 1986). 

Aarkrog A., Dahlgaard H., and Nielsen S. P. (1999) Marine radioactivity in the Arctic a retrospect of environmental studies in Greenland waters with emphasis on transport of Sr-90 and Cs-137 with the East Greenland Current. Sci. Tot. Environ. 238, 143-151. 

Tc 213000 Reproducing - large pulse from Sellafield beginning in 1994. Some weapons testing Surface circulation of European coastal waters, the Nordic Seas, Arctic Ocean, and East and West Greenland Currents... 

The aquatories of the White, Laptev, East Siberian, and Chukchi Seas are subject to visible variations in radionuclear pollution. The accumulation of radionuclides is observed in the Central aquatory of the Arctic Basin. The aquageosystems of the Greenland and Kara Seas have currently unknown factors that allow radionuclear... 

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