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"Norwegian Sea"

The Norwegian Sea
Map of the Norwegian Sea
Mean depth: 1600-1750 meters
Maximum depth: 3,970 meters (13,020 feet)
Area of surface: 1,380,000 square kilometers
Volume: 2,400,000 cubic kilometers
Water salinity: about 35 parts per 1,000
A cruise ship, the SuperStar Libra, formerly operated as the Norwegian Sea. Square Kilometre ( US spelling square kilometer) symbol km2, is a decimal multiple of the SI unit of Salinity is the Saltiness or dissolved salt content of a body of Water. History The vessel entered operation with Norwegian Cruise Line (NCL in 1988 as Seaward.

The Norwegian Sea (Norwegian: Norskehavet) is part of the North Atlantic Ocean northwest of Norway, located between the North Sea (i. Norwegian ( norsk) is a North Germanic Language spoken primarily in Norway, where it is an official language Norway ( Norwegian: Norge ( Bokmål) or Noreg ( Nynorsk) officially the Kingdom of Norway, is a Constitutional The North Sea is a marginal, Epeiric sea of the Atlantic Ocean on the European Continental shelf. e. north of Scotland) and the Greenland Sea. Scotland ( Gaelic: Alba) is a Country in northwest Europethat occupies the northern third of the island of Great Britain. The Greenland Sea is an area of the Arctic Ocean, considered the northern part of the Norwegian Sea, spanning Greenland, Svalbard,

It adjoins the Iceland Sea to the west and the Barents Sea to the northeast. The Barents Sea (Barentshavet Баренцево море is a part of the Arctic Ocean located north of Norway and Russia. In the southwest, it is separated from the Atlantic Ocean by a submarine ridge running between Iceland and the Faroe Islands. Iceland, officially the Republic of Iceland ( ( Ísland or Lýðveldið Ísland ( The Faroe Islands or Faeroe Islands or simply Faroe(s or Faeroes (Føroyar meaning " Sheep Islands" Færøerne Old Norse To the North, the Jan Mayen Ridge separates it from the Arctic Ocean. Jan Mayen Island is a 55 km (34 miles long (southwest-northeast and 373 km² (144  mi²) in area Arctic Volcanic island in the The Arctic Ocean, located in the Northern Hemisphere and mostly in the Arctic north polar region is the smallest and shallowest of the world's five major

The Norwegian Sea, the Greenland Sea and the Icelandic Sea are sometimes collectively referred to as the Nordic Seas.

Currents

In the Norwegian Sea and Greenland Sea, surface water descends two to three kilometres down to the bottom of the ocean, forming cold, oxygen-rich groundwater. As a result, there is a warm surface current and a cold depth current running along the west coast of Norway. An ocean current is continuous directed movement of Ocean water.

The so-called East Iceland Current transports cold water south from the Norwegian Sea towards Iceland and then east, along the Arctic Circle. The Arctic Circle is one of the five major circles of latitude that mark maps of the Earth. In the Norwegian Current, a branch of the Gulf Stream carries warm water masses northward and contributes to the mild and moist climate in Norway. The Norwegian Current (also known as the Norwegian Coastal Current) is a water current that flows north-easterly along the Atlantic coast of Norway at depths of between The Gulf Stream, together with its northern extension towards Europe the North Atlantic Drift, is a powerful warm and swift Atlantic Ocean current that The Norwegian Sea is the source of much of the North Atlantic Deep Water. North Atlantic Deep Water (NADW is a Water mass that forms in the North Atlantic Ocean.

The region remains ice-free due to the warm and saline Norwegian Atlantic Current. Salinity is the Saltiness or dissolved salt content of a body of Water. It provides rich fishing grounds, with catches mostly consisting of cod, herrings, sardines and anchovies. For the computer security term see Phishing. Fishing is the activity of catching Fish. Nowadays, shifts and fluctuations in these currents are closely monitored, as they are thought to be indicators for an ongoing climate change. Climate change is any long-term significant change in the “average weather” that a given region experiences

Other

Large-scale oil and gas production in the Norwegian Sea started in 1993. Year 1993 ( MCMXCIII) was a Common year starting on Friday (link will display full 1993 Gregorian calendar) In recent news, the Norwegian Sea was proposed as a prototype storage site for the greenhouse gas carbon dioxide (see CO2 sink). Greenhouse gases are gaseous constituents of the atmosphere bothnatural and anthropogenic that absorb and emit radiation at specific wavelengths within the spectrum of thermal infrared Carbon dioxide ( Chemical formula:) is a Chemical compound composed of two Oxygen Atoms covalently bonded to a single

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Norwegian Sea

-proper noun

  1. The northernmost part of the Atlantic Ocean, located northwest of Norway.
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