Freshening of the Labrador Sea as a trigger for  Little Ice Age development

Alonso-Garcia, Montserrat; Kleiven, Helga (Kikki) F.; McManus, Jerry F.; Moffa-Sanchez, Paola; Broecker, Wallace S.; Flower, Benjamin P.

doi:https://doi.org/10.5194/cp-13-317-2017

Articles | Volume 13, issue 4

https://doi.org/10.5194/cp-13-317-2017

© Author(s) 2017. This work is distributed under
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https://doi.org/10.5194/cp-13-317-2017

© Author(s) 2017. This work is distributed under
the Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 License.

Articles | Volume 13, issue 4

Research article

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07 Apr 2017

Research article |

| 07 Apr 2017

Freshening of the Labrador Sea as a trigger for Little Ice Age development

Montserrat Alonso-Garcia, Helga (Kikki) F. Kleiven, Jerry F. McManus, Paola Moffa-Sanchez, Wallace S. Broecker, and Benjamin P. Flower

Data sets

Ice-rafing history in the Labrador Sea during the last millennium. Dataset #874286 M. Alonso-Garcia, H. F. Kleiven, J. F. McManus, P. Moffa-Sanchez, W. S. Broecker, and B. P. Flower https://doi.pangaea.de/10.1594/PANGAEA.874286

Short summary

This study focuses on understanding climatic and oceanographic variations that took place during the last 1000 years. We studied sediment samples from the Labrador Sea, looking for evidence of events of freshwater and iceberg discharges to this region. The importance of this study is to evaluate when these events happened and their consequences. The freshening of the Labrador Sea region may have played a major role in promoting cooling during the 15th to 19th centuries.