Labrador Sea Water tracked by profiling floats - from the boundary current into the open North Atlantic

• Main Authors: Fischer, Jürgen, Schott, Friedrich
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: English
• Published: AMS (American Meteorological Society) 2002
• Subjects: Orphan Knoll; Labrador Sea; north atlantic current; North Atlantic
• Online Access: https://oceanrep.geomar.de/id/eprint/5779/; https://oceanrep.geomar.de/id/eprint/5779/1/1520-0485%282002%29032_0573_LSWTBP_2.0.pdf; https://doi.org/10.1175/1520-0485(2002)032<0573:LSWTBP>2.0.CO;2

Fifteen profiling floats were injected into the deep boundary current off Labrador. They were ballasted to drift in the core depth of Labrador Sea Water (LSW) at 1500-m depth and were deployed in two groups during March and July/August 1997. Initially, for about three months, the floats were driftin...