Rings around the Labrador Sea: WHOI physical oceanographer Amy...

Oceanus;  April 1, 2008 ;   Madin, Kate;   787 words ......Massachusetts. On her Labrador Sea cruise, she built...steamed to the Labrador Sea to deploy a mooring in a part of the...interesting happens. The mooring is anchored to...drift into the Labrador Sea. What are eddies...Greenland coast to the Labrador Sea ...

Rates and mechanisms of water mass transformation in the Labrador Sea as...

Journal of Physical Oceanography;  February 1, 2002 ;   Khatiwala, Samar; Schlosser, Peter; Visbeck, Martin;   787 words ......of Water Mass Transformation in the Labrador Sea as Inferred from Tracer Observations...3^He) observations from the central Labrador Sea collected between 1991 and 1996 are...temperature (theta)/salinity (S) properties of Labrador Sea Water stayed nearly constant as surface...

Adventure in the Labrador Sea. (account of an oceanographic research in...

Oceanus;  March 22, 1997 ;   Pickart, Robert S.;   787 words ......from our scheduled departure for the Labrador Sea. Almost immediately, I heard the captain...Observe wintertime convection in the Labrador Sea. This had been done only once before...affect Earth's climate system. In the Labrador Sea, bitter cold winds blowing off the Canadian...

Sources of eddy kinetic energy in the Labrador Sea

Journal of Physical Oceanography;  December 1, 2002 ;   Eden, Carsten; Boning, Claus;   787 words ......of eddy kinetic energy (EKE) in the Labrador Sea. A high-resolution model version (1...particular feature of the EKE in the Labrador Sea is its pronounced seasonal cycle, with...WGC). The main source of EKE in the Labrador Sea is an energy transfer due to Reynolds...

How Does Labrador Sea Water Enter the Deep Western Boundary Current?

Journal of Physical Oceanography;  May 1, 2008 ;   Palter, Jaime B; Lozier, M Susan; Lavender, Kara L;   787 words ......and the eddy heat flux between the interior Labrador Sea and the DWBC may play leading roles in setting...omitted.) 1. Introduction and background The Labrador Sea is a region where intense air-sea heat exchange...final product of such convective mixing, the Labrador Sea Water (LSW) ...

Ventilation and Transformation of Labrador Sea Water and Its Rapid Export...

Journal of Physical Oceanography;  April 1, 2007 ;   Brandt, Peter; Funk, Andreas; Czeschel, Lars; Eden, Carsten; Böning, Claus W;   787 words ......moderate convection intensity in the Labrador Sea. The model realistically describes the...compared. The transformation rate of Labrador Sea Water (LSW), defined in analogy to several...about one-half of the LSW leaving the Labrador Sea within the deep LC originates in the...

Labrador Sea

Canadian Encyclopedia;    ALLYN CLARKE AND KEN DRINKWATER;   256 words ......DRINKWATER Canadian Encyclopedia 01-01-2002 Labrador Sea Author: ALLYN CLARKE AND KEN DRINKWATER Labrador Sea is the body of water between Greenland...the seafloor, follows the axis of the Labrador Sea, some 3800 km from the mouth of HUDSON...

Coherent eddies in the Labrador Sea observed for a mooring

Journal of Physical Oceanography;  February 1, 2002 ;   Lilly, Jonathan M; Rhines, Peter B;   787 words ......June-November 1994, a mooring in the central Labrador Sea near the former...Kawase 1999). The Labrador Sea, the site of...a long-term mooring, located at...the central Labrador Sea. The present...involving the Bravo mooring; the first...

The Labrador Sea deep convection experiment

Bulletin of the American Meteorological Society;  October 1, 1998 ;   Anonymous;   787 words ......observe water mass transformation began in the Labrador Sea. Intense observations of ocean convection...Introduction a. Meteorology and oceanography of the Labrador Sea The northwest corner of the Atlantic Ocean (the Labrador Sea sketched in Fig. 1) is a region of ...

Boundary Circulation at the Exit of the Labrador Sea

Journal of Physical Oceanography;  July 1, 2004 ;   Fischer, Jürgen; Schott, Friedrich A; Dengler, Marcus;   787 words ......and related transports of the southern Labrador Sea are determined from direct current observations...sup 6^ m^sup 3^ s^sup -1^) comprising Labrador Sea Water (LSW), Gibbs Fracture Zone Water...the net deep-water outflow from the Labrador Sea was about 17 Sv. The baroclinic ...

Effects of wind on convection in strongly and weakly baroclinic flows with...

Journal of Physical Oceanography;  September 1, 2002 ;   Straneo, Fiammetta; Kawase, Mitsuhiro; Pickart, Robert S;   787 words ......Baroclinic Flows with Application to the Labrador Sea* ABSTRACT Large buoyancy loss driving...baroclinic front. For the case of the Labrador Sea, wintertime winds act to destabilize...forced with observed fields from the Labrador Sea, show how the combination of wind and...

Eddies in the Labrador Sea as observed by profiling RAFOS floats and...

Journal of Physical Oceanography;  February 1, 2002 ;   Prater, Mark D;   787 words ......and J.-C. Gascard, 1983: The formation of Labrador Sea Water. Part I: Large-scale processes. J. Phys...Rhines, P P. Niiler, and S. Bacon, 2002: Labrador Sea boundary currents and the fate of the Irminger...and R. A. Clarke, 1983: The formation of Labrador Sea Water. Part I: Mesoscale ...

Boundary Current Eddies and Their Role in the Restratification of the...

Journal of Physical Oceanography;  September 1, 2004 ;   Katsman, Caroline A; Spall, Michael A; Pickart, Robert S;   787 words ......buoyant Irminger Current water into the Labrador Sea interior. For a realistic end-of-winter state...convected water mass in the interior of the Labrador Sea. In addition, it is demonstrated that Irminger...role for the watermass transformation in the Labrador Sea. (ProQuest ...

Impact of Labrador Sea Convection on the North Atlantic Meridional...

Journal of Physical Oceanography;  September 1, 2007 ;   Pickart, Robert S; Spall, Michael A;   787 words ......overturning and horizontal circulations of the Labrador Sea are deduced from a composite vertical...the transformation of light water to Labrador Sea Water). The mean overturning cell is...largely impacted by deep convection in the Labrador Sea. (ProQuest: ... denotes formulae ...

Hydrography of the Labrador Sea during active convestion

Journal of Physical Oceanography;  February 1, 2002 ;   Pickart, Robert S; Torres, Daniel J;   787 words ......ABSTRACT The hydrographic structure of the Labrador Sea during wintertime convection is described...familiar cold/fresh/dense classical Labrador Sea Water (LSW). The boundary current water...layers are described. 1. Introduction The Labrador Sea has long been known as a site of ...