Decline and partial rebound of the Labrador Current 1993-2004: Monitoring ocean currents from altimetric and CTD data
Monitoring and understanding of Labrador Current ariability is important because it is intimately linked to the meridional overturning circulation and the marine ecosystem off northeast North America. Nevertheless, knowledge of its decadal variability is inadequate because of scarcity of current met...
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ftoceanrep:oai:oceanrep.geomar.de:10064 2023-05-15T17:33:37+02:00 Decline and partial rebound of the Labrador Current 1993-2004: Monitoring ocean currents from altimetric and CTD data Han, G. Ohashi, K. Chen, N. Myers, P. G. Nunes, Nuno Fischer, Jürgen 2010 text https://oceanrep.geomar.de/id/eprint/10064/ https://oceanrep.geomar.de/id/eprint/10064/12/Han_2010.pdf https://oceanrep.geomar.de/id/eprint/10064/1/2009JC006091-pip.pdf https://oceanrep.geomar.de/id/eprint/10064/5/jgrc11670-sup-0001-t01.txt https://doi.org/10.1029/2009JC006091 en eng AGU (American Geophysical Union) https://oceanrep.geomar.de/id/eprint/10064/12/Han_2010.pdf https://oceanrep.geomar.de/id/eprint/10064/1/2009JC006091-pip.pdf https://oceanrep.geomar.de/id/eprint/10064/5/jgrc11670-sup-0001-t01.txt Han, G., Ohashi, K., Chen, N., Myers, P. G., Nunes, N. and Fischer, J. (2010) Decline and partial rebound of the Labrador Current 1993-2004: Monitoring ocean currents from altimetric and CTD data. Open Access Journal of Geophysical Research: Oceans, 115 . C12012. DOI 10.1029/2009JC006091 <https://doi.org/10.1029/2009JC006091>. doi:10.1029/2009JC006091 info:eu-repo/semantics/openAccess Article PeerReviewed 2010 ftoceanrep https://doi.org/10.1029/2009JC006091 2023-04-07T14:57:56Z Monitoring and understanding of Labrador Current ariability is important because it is intimately linked to the meridional overturning circulation and the marine ecosystem off northeast North America. Nevertheless, knowledge of its decadal variability is inadequate because of scarcity of current meter data. By using a novel synthesis of satellite altimetry with conductivity-temperaturedepth (CTD) data we assess the Labrador Current variability north of the Hamilton Bank (56oN) over 1993-2004. Our analysis shows a decline of the surface-to-bottom transport of current by 6.3 ± 1.5 Sv (1 Sv =106 m3 s-1) in the 1990s (significant at the 99% confidence level) and a likely partial rebound of 3.2 ± 1.7 Sv in the early 2000s (significant at the 89% confidence level only). The inferred multiyear changes in the Labrador Current transport seem to be primarily barotropic and positively correlated (at the 99% level) with the North Atlantic Oscillation at zero lag implying a fast response of the regional circulation to the atmospheric forcing variability. The results compare favorably with direct current measurements and recent model-based findings on the multi-year variability of the subpolar gyre and its underlying mechanisms. The study demonstrates the feasibility of combining altimetry and CTD data for assessing the climatic variability of the boundary currents. Article in Journal/Newspaper North Atlantic North Atlantic oscillation OceanRep (GEOMAR Helmholtz Centre für Ocean Research Kiel) Hamilton Bank ENVELOPE(-54.156,-54.156,53.309,53.309) Journal of Geophysical Research 115 C12 |
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Monitoring and understanding of Labrador Current ariability is important because it is intimately linked to the meridional overturning circulation and the marine ecosystem off northeast North America. Nevertheless, knowledge of its decadal variability is inadequate because of scarcity of current meter data. By using a novel synthesis of satellite altimetry with conductivity-temperaturedepth (CTD) data we assess the Labrador Current variability north of the Hamilton Bank (56oN) over 1993-2004. Our analysis shows a decline of the surface-to-bottom transport of current by 6.3 ± 1.5 Sv (1 Sv =106 m3 s-1) in the 1990s (significant at the 99% confidence level) and a likely partial rebound of 3.2 ± 1.7 Sv in the early 2000s (significant at the 89% confidence level only). The inferred multiyear changes in the Labrador Current transport seem to be primarily barotropic and positively correlated (at the 99% level) with the North Atlantic Oscillation at zero lag implying a fast response of the regional circulation to the atmospheric forcing variability. The results compare favorably with direct current measurements and recent model-based findings on the multi-year variability of the subpolar gyre and its underlying mechanisms. The study demonstrates the feasibility of combining altimetry and CTD data for assessing the climatic variability of the boundary currents. |
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Han, G. Ohashi, K. Chen, N. Myers, P. G. Nunes, Nuno Fischer, Jürgen Decline and partial rebound of the Labrador Current 1993-2004: Monitoring ocean currents from altimetric and CTD data |
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Decline and partial rebound of the Labrador Current 1993-2004: Monitoring ocean currents from altimetric and CTD data |
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Decline and partial rebound of the Labrador Current 1993-2004: Monitoring ocean currents from altimetric and CTD data |
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Decline and partial rebound of the Labrador Current 1993-2004: Monitoring ocean currents from altimetric and CTD data |
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Decline and partial rebound of the Labrador Current 1993-2004: Monitoring ocean currents from altimetric and CTD data |
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Decline and partial rebound of the Labrador Current 1993-2004: Monitoring ocean currents from altimetric and CTD data |
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decline and partial rebound of the labrador current 1993-2004: monitoring ocean currents from altimetric and ctd data |
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