Surface and subsurface Labrador Shelf water mass conditions during the last 6,000 years

• Main Authors: Lochte, Annalena A., Schneider, Ralph, Repschläger, Janne, Kienast, Markus, Blanz, Thomas, Garbe-Schönberg, Dieter, Andersen, Nils
• Format: Text
• Language: English
• Published: 2019
• Subjects: Canada; Greenland; Labrador Shelf; Ice Sheet; Labrador Sea; North Atlantic Deep Water; North Atlantic; Sea ice
• Online Access: https://doi.org/10.5194/cp-2019-100; https://www.clim-past-discuss.net/cp-2019-100/

The Labrador Sea is important for the modern global thermohaline circulation system through the formation of intermediate Labrador Sea Water (LSW) that has been hypothesized to stabilize the modern mode of North Atlantic deep-water circulation. The rate of LSW formation is controlled by the amount o...