“…Wind stresses over the continental slope lead to cross‐slope Ekman transport that has been linked to variability of CDW heat fluxes across and along the shelf in observations (Assmann et al., 2013; Greene et al., 2017) and models (Dotto et al., 2020; Spence et al., 2014; Tamsitt et al., 2021; Thoma et al., 2008). Wind forcing over the continental shelf can also lead to vigorous deep mixing which erodes the thickness of CDW on the shelf (Caillet et al., 2023; Moorman et al., 2023). Surface buoyancy losses, for example, due to sea ice formation in coastal polynyas, are also able to erode the thickness of CDW across the shelf by deepening the mixed layer (Caillet et al., 2023; Webber et al., 2017).…”