Was the Atlantic water temperature in the West Spitsbergen Current predictable in the 1990s?

Schlichtholz, Pawel; Goszczko, Ilona. 2005 Was the Atlantic water temperature in the West Spitsbergen Current predictable in the 1990s? Geophysical Research Letters, 32 (4). https://doi.org/10.1029/2004GL021724