Hydrography of the Labrador Sea During Active Convection

• Main Author: Pickart, Robert S.
• Other Authors: WOODS HOLE OCEANOGRAPHIC INSTITUTION MA DEPT OF PHYSICAL OCEANOGRAPHY
• Format: Text
• Language: English
• Published: 2001
• Subjects: Physical and Dynamic Oceanography; Hydrology; Limnology and Potamology; *HYDROGRAPHY; *LABRADOR SEA; OCEAN CURRENTS; WATER; CONVECTION; BOUNDARIES; VERTICAL ORIENTATION; HISTORY; NORTH ATLANTIC OCEAN; WATER MASSES; OFFSHORE; SINKING; Ari; Irminger Sea; Labrador Sea; North Atlantic
• Online Access: http://www.dtic.mil/docs/citations/ADA391080; http://oai.dtic.mil/oai/oai?&verb=getRecord&metadataPrefix=html&identifier=ADA391080

In winter 1997 a broad-scale hydrographic survey of the Labrador Sea was done during the period of active convection. This was part of the ONR-sponsored Deep Convection Accelerated Research Initiative (ARI) to study the dynamics of convective overturning. We observed convection both in the interior...