Ocean Science www.ocean-sci.net 1812-0784 1812-0792 6 1 2010 10.5194/os-6-301-2010 http://www.ocean-sci.net/6/301/2010/ http://www.ocean-sci.net/6/301/2010/os-6-301-2010.html http://www.ocean-sci.net/6/301/2010/os-6-301-2010.pdf 301 310 2010-03-01 Entrainment in the Denmark Strait overflow plume by meso-scale eddies G. Voet gunnar.voet@zmaw.de D. Quadfasel Institut für Meereskunde, KlimaCampus, University of Hamburg, Hamburg, Germany The entrainment of buoyant ambient water into the overflow plume of Denmark Strait and the associated downstream warming of the plume are estimated using time series of currents and temperature from moored instrumentation and classical hydrographic data. Warming rates are highest (0.4–0.5 K/100 km) within the first 200 km of the sill, and decrease to 0.05–0.1 K/100 km further downstream. 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