Hydrographic Variability in the Waters of the Gulf of St. Lawrence, the Scotian Shelf and the Eastern Gulf of Maine

• Main Authors: Nafo Subarea During, Kenneth F. Drinkwater, Denis Gilbert
• Other Authors: The Pennsylvania State University CiteSeerX Archives
• Format: Text
• Language: English
• Subjects: decadal variability; oceanography; salinity; stratification; temperature; Newfoundland; Tive
• Online Access: http://citeseerx.ist.psu.edu/viewdoc/summary?doi=10.1.1.510.746; http://journal.nafo.int/34/drinkwater2/6-drinkwater.pdf

This paper examines the hydrographic variability within the Gulf of St. Lawrence, the Scotian Shelf and the eastern Gulf of Maine, including the Bay of Fundy, during the decade 1991–2000. Comparisons are made with previous decadal means to place the 1990s into a longer-term perspec-tive. The 1990s d...