@article{1927d0827f664299879aa7aabe932401,
title = "Labrador current variability over the last 2000 years",
abstract = "The ice-loaded Labrador Current (LC) is an important component of the western North Atlantic circulation that influences the position and strength of the northern limb of the North Atlantic Current (NAC). This flow of cold and fresh Polar Waters originating from the Arctic has a marked impact on the North Atlantic climate, yet little is known about its variability beyond the instrumental period. In this study, we present the first sub-decadal alkenone-based 2000-year long sea-surface temperature (SST) records from the western Labrador Sea, a climatically crucial region at the boundary between the LC and the NAC. Our results show a clear link between the LC strength and the Northern Annular Mode (NAM), with a stronger NAM and a more vigorous LC during the Medieval Climate Anomaly (MCA). This suggests enhanced LC activity upon future global warming with implications for the Atlantic meridional overturning circulation (AMOC).",
keywords = "Labrador Sea, Last millennia, Newfoundland, Northern Annular Mode, Ocean variability, Temperature proxy",
author = "M.-A. Sicre and K. Weckstr{\"o}m and M.-S. Seidenkrantz and A. Kuijpers and M. Benetti and G. Masse and U. Ezat and S. Schmidt and I. Bouloubassi and J. Olsen and M. Khodri and J. Mignot",
note = "Funding Information: The research presented here was supported by the French LEFE/INSU NAIV project (CNRS/INSU) and the ERC 203441 starting grant ICEPROXY project. K.W. was funded via a Marie Curie IEF grant (agreement No. 236678 ). M.-S.S. and A.K. received funding via the TROPOLINK and OCEANHEAT projects supported by the Danish Council for Independent Research Natural Science (FNU Grants 09-069833 and 12-126709 ). The cruise was funded by the Danish Council for Independent Research, Natural Science (project No. 272-06-0604/FNU ) and carried out within the Danish–Russian collaboration project {\textquoteleft}Joint paleoceanographic investigations in the Labrador Sea region{\textquoteright}. This work is a contribution to the EU FP7 project {\textquoteleft}Past4Future{\textquoteright} (project No. 243908).",
year = "2014",
month = aug,
day = "15",
doi = "10.1016/j.epsl.2014.05.016",
language = "English",
volume = "400",
pages = "26--32",
journal = "Earth and Planetary Science Letters",
issn = "0012-821X",
publisher = "Elsevier",
}