Surface factors controlling the volume of accumulated Labrador Sea Water

• Main Authors: Kostov, Yavor, Messias, Marie-José, Mercier, Herlé, Marshall, David, Johnson, Helen
• Other Authors: University of Exeter, Laboratoire d'Océanographie Physique et Spatiale (LOPS), Institut de Recherche pour le Développement (IRD)-Institut Français de Recherche pour l'Exploitation de la Mer (IFREMER)-Institut national des sciences de l'Univers (INSU - CNRS)-Université de Brest (UBO)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS), University of Oxford, school of mathematical sciences, Queensland University of Technology Brisbane (QUT)
• Format: Report
• Language: English
• Published: HAL CCSD 2023
• Subjects: [SDU]Sciences of the Universe [physics]; Irminger Sea; Iceland; Labrador Sea; Nordic Seas; North Atlantic
• Online Access: https://hal.science/hal-04299663; https://doi.org/10.5194/egusphere-2023-1564

Abstract. We explore historical variability in the volume of Labrador Sea Water (LSW) using ECCO, an ocean state estimate configuration of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology general circulation model (MITgcm). The model’s adjoint, a linearization of the MITgcm, is set up to output the lagged...