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https://doi.org/10.5194/cp-13-317-2017
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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
CORRESPONDING AUTHOR
College of Marine Science, University of South Florida, St. Petersburg, FL, USA
Instituto Português do Mar e da Atmosfera (IPMA), Div. de Geologia e Georecursos Marinhos, Lisbon, Portugal
Centro de Ciencias do Mar (CCMAR), Universidade do Algarve, Faro, Portugal
Helga (Kikki) F. Kleiven
University of Bergen and Bjerknes Centre for Climate Research, Postboks 7803, 5020 Bergen, Norway
Jerry F. McManus
Department of Earth and Environmental Sciences, Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory of Columbia University, Palisades, NY 10964-8000, USA
Paola Moffa-Sanchez
School of Earth and Ocean Sciences, Cardiff University, Park Place, CF10 3YE, Cardiff, UK
Wallace S. Broecker
Department of Earth and Environmental Sciences, Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory of Columbia University, Palisades, NY 10964-8000, USA
Benjamin P. Flower
College of Marine Science, University of South Florida, St. Petersburg, FL, USA
deceased
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- Unexpected cold season warming during the Little Ice Age on the northeastern Tibetan Plateau Y. Yao et al. 10.1038/s43247-023-00855-w
- Thermal conditions on the coast of Labrador during the late 18th century G. Singh et al. 10.5194/cp-21-877-2025
- North Atlantic variability and its links to European climate over the last 3000 years P. Moffa-Sánchez & I. Hall 10.1038/s41467-017-01884-8
- Speleothems from the Middle East: An Example of Water Limited Environments in the SISAL Database Y. Burstyn et al. 10.3390/quat2020016
- A 250‐Year, Decadally Resolved, Radiocarbon Time History in the Gulf of Maine Reveals a Hydrographic Regime Shift at the End of the Little Ice Age E. Lower‐Spies et al. 10.1029/2020JC016579
- Evidence for extreme export of Arctic sea ice leading the abrupt onset of the Little Ice Age M. Miles et al. 10.1126/sciadv.aba4320
- “… the most delicious fish …”—toward a zooarchaeology of the green sea urchin, Strongylocentrotus droebachiensis , on the coastal Northeast of North America A. Patton et al. 10.1080/15564894.2023.2227135
- Changes in surface conditions east of the Reykjanes Ridge (North Atlantic) during the Late Pleistocene to Holocene cold events K. Savkina et al. 10.2205/2018ES000634
- Variability in the Northern North Atlantic and Arctic Oceans Across the Last Two Millennia: A Review P. Moffa‐Sánchez et al. 10.1029/2018PA003508
- The variable European Little Ice Age H. Wanner et al. 10.1016/j.quascirev.2022.107531
- Changes in summer temperatures and rainfall in the northeastern Iberian Peninsula in the late 1960s and the weakening of the Iberian thermal low V. Favà et al. 10.1007/s00703-018-0643-0
- Little Ice Age abruptly triggered by intrusion of Atlantic waters into the Nordic Seas F. Lapointe & R. Bradley 10.1126/sciadv.abi8230
- A plausible emergence of new convection sites in the Arctic Ocean in a warming climate R. Gou et al. 10.1088/1748-9326/ad2237
- Paleoceanography of the Gulf of Tehuantepec during the Medieval Warm Period Á. García-Gallardo et al. 10.1016/j.marmicro.2021.102081
- Late Holocene sea-level changes in eastern Québec and potential drivers R. Barnett et al. 10.1016/j.quascirev.2018.10.039
- Pulsebeat of early Holocene glaciation in Baffin Bay from high-resolution beryllium-10 moraine chronologies N. Young et al. 10.1016/j.quascirev.2021.107179
- Large-scale transgressive coastal dune behaviour in Europe during the Little Ice Age D. Jackson et al. 10.1016/j.gloplacha.2019.02.003
- Impact of Medieval Climate Anomaly and Little Ice Age on the Labrador Current flow speed and the AMOC reconstructed by the sediment dynamics and biomarker proxies H. Rashid et al. 10.1016/j.palaeo.2023.111558
- Evidence for Stable Holocene Basin‐Scale Overturning Circulation Despite Variable Currents Along the Deep Western Boundary of the North Atlantic Ocean S. Hoffmann et al. 10.1029/2018GL080187
- Surface climate signals transmitted rapidly to deep North Atlantic throughout last millennium W. Lu et al. 10.1126/science.adf1646
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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.
This study focuses on understanding climatic and oceanographic variations that took place during...
