Decline and partial rebound of the Labrador Current 1993-2004: Monitoring ocean currents from altimetric and conductivity-temperature-depth data
Monitoring and understanding of Labrador Current variability 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 me...
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fttriple:oai:gotriple.eu:10670/1.bg7gyb 2023-05-15T17:34:14+02:00 Decline and partial rebound of the Labrador Current 1993-2004: Monitoring ocean currents from altimetric and conductivity-temperature-depth data Chen, Nancy Ohashi, Kyoko Fischer, Jürgen Myers, Paul G. Han, Guoqi Nunes, Nuno 2010-01-01 https://doi.org/10.7939/R37M04F35 https://era.library.ualberta.ca/items/bb9913e0-f587-49a3-b79e-2df87306a8a1 en eng doi:10.7939/R37M04F35 10670/1.bg7gyb https://era.library.ualberta.ca/items/bb9913e0-f587-49a3-b79e-2df87306a8a1 undefined ERA : Education and Research Archive envir geo Other https://vocabularies.coar-repositories.org/resource_types/c_1843/ 2010 fttriple https://doi.org/10.7939/R37M04F35 2023-01-22T17:57:41Z Monitoring and understanding of Labrador Current variability 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-temperature-depth (CTD) data, we assess the Labrador Current variability north of the Hamilton Bank (56°N) 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 multiyear 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. Other/Unknown Material North Atlantic North Atlantic oscillation Unknown Hamilton Bank ENVELOPE(-54.156,-54.156,53.309,53.309) |
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Monitoring and understanding of Labrador Current variability 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-temperature-depth (CTD) data, we assess the Labrador Current variability north of the Hamilton Bank (56°N) 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 multiyear 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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Decline and partial rebound of the Labrador Current 1993-2004: Monitoring ocean currents from altimetric and conductivity-temperature-depth data |
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Decline and partial rebound of the Labrador Current 1993-2004: Monitoring ocean currents from altimetric and conductivity-temperature-depth data |
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Decline and partial rebound of the Labrador Current 1993-2004: Monitoring ocean currents from altimetric and conductivity-temperature-depth data |
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Decline and partial rebound of the Labrador Current 1993-2004: Monitoring ocean currents from altimetric and conductivity-temperature-depth data |
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Decline and partial rebound of the Labrador Current 1993-2004: Monitoring ocean currents from altimetric and conductivity-temperature-depth data |
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decline and partial rebound of the labrador current 1993-2004: monitoring ocean currents from altimetric and conductivity-temperature-depth data |
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