Labrador Sea

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1. Story
2. The basin between Labrador and Greenland where winter storms strip so much heat from the surface that the water column overturns to depths of one to two kilometres, forming Labrador Sea Water. For most of the twentieth century this was assumed to be the engine room of the Atlantic overturning. The OSNAP array, deployed across the subpolar North Atlantic in 2014, measured it directly and found otherwise: over the first 21 months, overturning across OSNAP West — the Labrador section — averaged 2.1 ± 0.3 Sv, while across OSNAP East, from Greenland to Scotland, it averaged 15.6 ± 0.8 Sv. Deep convection here is real and dramatic; it is simply not where most of the overturning happens.
3. Knowledge
4. North Atlantic — Grand Banks approaches
5. Labrador Sea
6. Connections
7. North Atlantic Deep Water (NADW)
8. North Atlantic — Grand Banks approaches
9. Overturning in the Subpolar North Atlantic Program (OSNAP)
10. OSNAP is deployed across the subpolar North Atlantic
11. OSNAP moves the engine room out of the Labrador Sea
12. RMS Titanic
13. North Atlantic iceberg drift
14. Titanic wreck site
15. International Ice Patrol
16. Baltic's ice warning handed to Ismay and pocketed
17. Mesaba reports heavy pack ice and bergs directly ahead
18. Iceberg sighted and struck
19. Titanic founders
20. International Ice Patrol established
21. Gulf Stream
22. Southern Ocean
23. Labrador Sea
24. The RAPID array begins continuous AMOC measurement at 26.5°N
25. Evidence
26. Over the first 21 months of the OSNAP array (August 2014 – April 2016) overturning averaged 15.6 ± 0.8 Sv across OSNAP East and 2.1 ± 0.3 Sv across OSNAP West, contradicting the prevailing view that Labrador Sea convection dominates subpolar overturning variability. Read via search summaries and press releases; the article itself was not fetched.