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
the Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 License.

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

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AC: Author comment | RC: Referee comment | SC: Short comment | EC: Editor comment

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RC1: 'Comments to Alonso-Garcia et al.', Anonymous Referee #1, 19 Aug 2016
- AC1: 'Reply to Reviewer#1', Montserrat Alonso-Garcia, 26 Oct 2016
RC2: 'Review', John Andrews, 23 Aug 2016
- AC2: 'Reply to Reviewer#2', Montserrat Alonso-Garcia, 26 Oct 2016
RC3: 'Review', Anonymous Referee #3, 02 Sep 2016
- AC3: 'Reply to Reviewer#3', Montserrat Alonso-Garcia, 26 Oct 2016

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AR: Author's response | RR: Referee report | ED: Editor decision

ED: Reconsider after major revisions (25 Nov 2016) by Andrea Dutton

AR by Montserrat Alonso-Garcia on behalf of the Authors (20 Jan 2017) Author's response Manuscript

ED: Publish subject to technical corrections (03 Mar 2017) by Andrea Dutton

AR by Montserrat Alonso-Garcia on behalf of the Authors (10 Mar 2017) Manuscript

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.