Convection above the Labrador Continental Slope

Journal of Physical Oceanography;  April 1, 2005 ;     700+ words ......the "classical" Labrador Current, baroclinic instability...Introduction The Labrador Sea boundary circulation...fast-flowing Labrador Sea boundary currents...instance, the deep Labrador Current flows at 15 cm...the interior Labrador Sea, hence ...

Labrador Sea

Canadian Encyclopedia;      256 words ......Encyclopedia 01-01-2002 Labrador Sea Author: ALLYN CLARKE AND KEN DRINKWATER Labrador Sea is the body of water...follows the axis of the Labrador Sea, some 3800 km from...northward, while the LABRADOR CURRENT transports cold, less...A water mass, the Labrador ...

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

Journal of Physical Oceanography;  April 1, 2007 ;     700+ words ......intensity in the Labrador Sea. The model...transformation rate of Labrador Sea Water (LSW...is the deep Labrador Current (LC). Backward...leaving the Labrador Sea within the...convection in the Labrador Sea contributes...so-called Labrador ...

Labrador Sea boundary currents and the fate of the Irminger Sea Water

Journal of Physical Oceanography;  February 1, 2002 ;     700+ words ......circulation of the Labrador Sea is studied...circulation of the Labrador Sea. Above the...Water in the Labrador Sea show signs...circulation of the Labrador Sea is essentially...the shallow Labrador Current flows southward...boundary of the Labrador ...

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

Journal of Physical Oceanography;  February 1, 2002 ;     700+ words ......Labrador Sea Water. 1. Introduction The Labrador Sea is the site of intense air-sea interaction...convection, a weakly stratified water mass, Labrador Sea Water (LSW), of nearly uniform temperature...campaigns has been conducted in the Labrador Sea to study various ...

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

Oceanus;  March 22, 1997 ;     700+ 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...

Quasi-decadal salinity fluctuations in the Labrador Sea

Journal of Physical Oceanography;  February 1, 2002 ;     700+ words ......Fluctuations in the Labrador Sea* ABSTRACT The quasi-decad...upper 300 rn of the Labrador Sea are investigated...slope region near the Labrador Current. The Labrador Sea cannot be considered...anomalies in the Labrador Current are approximately...anomaly ...

Sources of eddy kinetic energy in the Labrador Sea

Journal of Physical Oceanography;  December 1, 2002 ;     700+ 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...

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

Oceanus;  April 1, 2008 ;     700+ words ......install an experimental device in the Labrador Sea. It is designed to wait for certain...of the Year in Massachusetts. On her Labrador Sea cruise, she built in an innovative outreach...cruise aboard Knorr. We steamed to the Labrador Sea to deploy a mooring in a part of the...

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

Journal of Physical Oceanography;  May 1, 2008 ;     700+ words ...ABSTRACT Labrador Sea Water (LSW), a dense water mass formed...evaluated for their role in the entry of Labrador Sea Water in the DWBC: 1) LSW is formed...flux LSW laterally from the interior Labrador Sea to the DWBC, and 3) a horizontally...

Coherent eddies in the Labrador Sea observed for a mooring

Journal of Physical Oceanography;  February 1, 2002 ;     700+ words ......June-November 1994, a mooring in the central Labrador Sea near the former Ocean Weather Station...wintertime deep convection in the interior Labrador Sea. Compared with eddies in other regions...Irminger Current, which surrounds the Labrador Sea on three sides. 1. Introduction The...

The Labrador Sea deep convection experiment

Bulletin of the American Meteorological Society;  October 1, 1998 ;     700+ words ......water mass transformation began in the Labrador Sea. Intense observations of ocean convection...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...

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

Journal of Physical Oceanography;  September 1, 2002 ;     700+ words ......Application to the Labrador Sea* ABSTRACT Large...the case of the Labrador Sea, wintertime winds...the baroclinic Labrador Current causing a buoyancy...fields from the Labrador Sea, show how the...For the interior Labrador Sea, this mechanism...in the ...

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

Journal of Physical Oceanography;  February 1, 2002 ;     700+ words ......patterns of eddy variability in the Labrador Sea. Peaks in sea surface height (SSH) variability...West Greenland Current water into the Labrador Sea interior. Data from profiling RAFOS floats launched in 1997 as part of the Labrador Sea Deep Convection Experiment are used...

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

Journal of Physical Oceanography;  September 1, 2004 ;     700+ words ......to study the restratification of the Labrador Sea after deep convection, with emphasis...buoyant Irminger Current water into the Labrador Sea interior. For a realistic end-of-winter...convected water mass in the interior of the Labrador Sea. In addition, it is demonstrated that...