1 1 Arctic Ocean outflow and glacier-ocean interaction modify water over the Wandel Sea shelf 2 (Northeast Greenland) 3 4 5 Igor A. Dmitrenko1*, Sergey A. Kirillov1, Bert Rudels2, David G. Babb1, Leif Toudal Pedersen3, Søren 6 Rysgaard1,4,5, Yngve Kristoffersen6,7 and David G. Barber1 7 8 9 1Centre for Earth Observation Science, University of Manitoba, Winnipeg, Canada 10 2Finnish Meteorological Institute, Helsinki, Finland 11 3 Technical University of Denmark, Lyngby, Denmark 12 4Greenland Climate Research Centre, Greenland Institute of Natural Resources, Nuuk, Greenland 13 5Arctic Research Centre, Aarhus University, Aarhus, Denmark 14 6Department of Earth Science, University of Bergen, Bergen, Norway 15 7 Nansen Environmental and Remote Sensing Centre, Bergen, Norway 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 *Corresponding author, e-mail:
[email protected] 2 23 Abstract: The first-ever conductivity-temperature-depth (CTD) observations on the Wandel Sea shelf in 24 North Eastern Greenland were collected in April-May 2015. They were complemented by CTDs taken 25 along the continental slope during the Norwegian FRAM 2014-15 drift. The CTD profiles are used to 26 reveal the origin of water masses and interactions with ambient water from the continental slope and the 27 tidewater glacier outlet. The subsurface water is associated with the Pacific Water outflow from the Arctic 28 Ocean. The underlying Halocline separates the Pacific Water from a deeper layer of Polar Water that has 29 interacted with the warm Atlantic water outflow through Fram Strait recorded below 140 m. Over the outer 30 shelf, the Halocline shows numerous cold density-compensated intrusions indicating lateral interaction with 31 an ambient Polar Water mass across the continental slope.