Mesoscale Eddies in the Labrador Sea and Their Contribution to Convection and Restratification

• Published in: Journal of Physical Oceanography
• Main Authors: Chanut, Jérôme, Barnier, Bernard, Large, William, Debreu, Laurent, Penduff, Thierry, Molines, Jean-Marc, Mathiot, Pierre
• Other Authors: Laboratoire des Écoulements Géophysiques et Industriels Grenoble (LEGI), Université Joseph Fourier - Grenoble 1 (UJF)-Institut polytechnique de Grenoble - Grenoble Institute of Technology (Grenoble INP )-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS), National Center for Atmospheric Research Boulder (NCAR), Modelling, Observations, Identification for Environmental Sciences (MOISE), Inria Grenoble - Rhône-Alpes, Institut National de Recherche en Informatique et en Automatique (Inria)-Institut National de Recherche en Informatique et en Automatique (Inria)-Laboratoire Jean Kuntzmann (LJK), Université Pierre Mendès France - Grenoble 2 (UPMF)-Université Joseph Fourier - Grenoble 1 (UJF)-Institut polytechnique de Grenoble - Grenoble Institute of Technology (Grenoble INP )-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-Université Pierre Mendès France - Grenoble 2 (UPMF)-Université Joseph Fourier - Grenoble 1 (UJF)-Institut polytechnique de Grenoble - Grenoble Institute of Technology (Grenoble INP )-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: English
• Published: HAL CCSD 2008
• Subjects: Eddies; North Atlantic Ocean; Boundary currents; Ocean dynamics; Ocean circulation; [SDU.STU.OC]Sciences of the Universe [physics]/Earth Sciences/Oceanography; [PHYS.MECA.MEFL]Physics [physics]/Mechanics [physics]/Fluid mechanics [physics.class-ph]; Greenland; Central Basin; Labrador Sea; North Atlantic
• Online Access: https://hal.science/hal-00266980; https://hal.science/hal-00266980/document; https://hal.science/hal-00266980/file/Chanut2008.pdf; https://doi.org/10.1175/2008JPO3485.1

International audience The cycle of open ocean deep convection in the Labrador Sea is studied in a realistic, high-resolution (4 km) regional model, embedded in a coarser (1⁄3°) North Atlantic setup. This configuration allows the simultaneous generation and evolution of three different eddy types th...