Labrador Sea surface circulation and the fate of the Irminger Sea Water


  The Labrador Sea is fundamental to the world ocean circulation as it is one of the few locations where deep convection occurs. The three other main deep convection sites are the Greenland Sea, the Gulf of Lion in the Mediterranean Sea, and the Weddell Sea in Antarctica.
The boundary circulation of the Labrador Sea is made of three main currents: the West Greenland Current, the Labrador Current and the North atlantic Current at the southern limit.
I used surface drifters, hydrographic sections and 2 PALACE floats to study the boundary circulation of the Labrador Sea as an ensemble and to trace the pathways of the Irminger Sea Water. The figures from my paper are reproduced in the following pages.



                           






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