Thermohaline staircases in the Eurasian Basin and their relations to thermohaline intrusions

Meri Korhonen1,2, Bert Rudels1, Vladimir Ivanov3, Benjamin Rabe4 and Ursula Schauer4, (1)Finnish Meteorological Institute, Helsinki, Finland, (2)University of Helsinki, Helsinki, Finland, (3)Arctic and Antarctic Research Institute, St Petersburg, Russia, (4)Alfred Wegener Institute Helmholtz-Center for Polar and Marine Research Bremerhaven, Bremerhaven, Germany