Hydrographic Preconditioning for Seasonal Sea Ice Anomalies in the Labrador Sea

This study investigates the hydrographic processes involved in setting the maximum wintertime sea ice (SI) extent in the Labrador Sea and Baffin Bay. The analysis is based on an ocean and sea ice state estimate covering the summer-to-summer 1996/97 annual cycle. The estimate is a synthesis of in sit...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Authors: Fenty, Ian, Heimbach, Patrick
Other Authors: Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Department of Earth, Atmospheric, and Planetary Sciences
Format: Article
Language:en_US
Published: American Meteorological Society 2013
Online Access:http://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/82887
https://orcid.org/0000-0003-3925-6161