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Abstract Warm and saline water of Atlantic origin is transported across the Greenland Scotland Ridge into the Arctic Mediterranean. This inflow has a large impact on e.g. the climate and sea-ice in the Arctic and the knowledge of its variability and possible trend is therefore of huge importance in predicting Arctic climate change. The inflow has been monitored since the late 1990s with moored instrumentation combined with regular hydrographic cruises and data from satellite altimetry, but deploying moorings in the heavily fished region close to the Greenland Scotland Ridge is highly demanding in terms of manpower and funding. Efforts have therefore been made to optimize the monitoring systems, lately within the H2020 Blue-Action project. This has led to systems, which rely heavily on satellite altimetry. More recently moored PIES (Pressure Inverted Echo Sounders) have been used in a pilot project to monitor short-term variations of the temperature and salinity fields and these results look promising. ; Funding was also received from the Danish Ministry of Climate, Energy and Utilities (FARMON & FARMON II projects) and the Marine Scotland Science's Offshore Monitoring Programme (Scottish Government).

List of the presentations included in this collection: Welcome (Gerard McCarthy, NUIM) Introduction to the observing arrays NOAC (Martin Moritz, BSH) Greenland-Scotland Ridge (Berit Rabe, MSS) Observing the Slope Current The European Slope Current (Martin White, NUIG) Observing and Understanding the Slope Current (Marie Porter and Neil Fraser, SAMS) Decadal predictions (Andre Duesterhus, NUIM) Modelling in the Eastern Subpolar Gyre Modelling the Slope Current (Bob Marsh, Univ. Southampton) Nested models on the shelf (Tomasz Dubrowski, Irish Marine Institute) ; Blue-Action and Atlas have received funding from the European Union's Horizon 2020 research and innovation programme under grant agreements No 727852 (Blue-Action) and No 678760 (ATLAS). A4 (Aigéin, Aeráid, agus athrú Atlantaigh) is funded by the Marine Institute and the European Regional Development fund (grant: PBA/CC/18/01)