Intense warming and salinification of intermediate waters of southern origin in the eastern subpolar North Atlantic in the 1990s to mid‐2000s

Recent thermohaline changes in the layer of intermediate waters (IW) advected into the eastern subpolar North Atlantic from lower latitudes are quantified using the data from the repeated transatlantic sections. Positive trends in temperature and salinity in the IW density class at ∼53°N (0.049°C/a and 0.0088/a, 1992–2002) and ∼60°N (0.044°C/a and 0.0085/a, 1997–2005) are derived. The unexpectedly high rates of the IW warming and salinification...