A climate index for the Newfoundland and Labrador shelf

• Published in: Earth System Science Data
• Main Authors: Cyr, Frédéric, Galbraith, Peter S.
• Format: Text
• Language: English
• Published: 2021
• Subjects: Labrador Shelf; Newfoundland; North Atlantic; North Atlantic oscillation; Northwest Atlantic; Sea ice
• Online Access: https://doi.org/10.5194/essd-13-1807-2021; https://essd.copernicus.org/articles/13/1807/2021/

This study presents in detail a new climate index for the Newfoundland and Labrador (NL) shelf. The NL climate index (NLCI) aims to describe the environmental conditions on the NL shelf and in the Northwest Atlantic as a whole. It consists of the average of 10 normalized anomalies, or subindices, de...