Holocene water mass changes in the Labrador Current

• Published in: The Holocene
• Main Authors: Lochte, A., Repschläger, J., Seidenkrantz, M., Kienast, M., Blanz, T., Schneider, R.
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: English
• Published: 2019
• Subjects: Baffin Bay; Central Basin; Greenland; Labrador Shelf; Baffin; Labrador Sea; North Atlantic Deep Water; North Atlantic; Sea ice
• Online Access: http://hdl.handle.net/21.11116/0000-0003-EBE0-7

The Labrador Current is part of the anticlockwise subpolar gyre and plays a major role in the formation of North Atlantic Deep Water. It is influenced by the West Greenland and Baffin currents supplying warmer Atlantic and cold polar waters, respectively. During the early Holocene, at the final stag...