Articles | Volume 12, issue 2
https://doi.org/10.5194/esd-12-419-2021
https://doi.org/10.5194/esd-12-419-2021
Research article
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26 Apr 2021
Research article |  | 26 Apr 2021

Labrador Sea subsurface density as a precursor of multidecadal variability in the North Atlantic: a multi-model study

Pablo Ortega, Jon I. Robson, Matthew Menary, Rowan T. Sutton, Adam Blaker, Agathe Germe, Jöel J.-M. Hirschi, Bablu Sinha, Leon Hermanson, and Stephen Yeager

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Deep Labrador Sea densities are receiving increasing attention because of their link to many of the processes that govern decadal climate oscillations in the North Atlantic and their potential use as a precursor of those changes. This article explores those links and how they are represented in global climate models, documenting the main differences across models. Models are finally compared with observational products to identify the ones that reproduce the links more realistically.
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