Labrador Sea Water Formation, Export and Property Changes from Ship Surveys, Profiling Floats, Moored Instruments and Ocean Model Simulations

Igor Yashayaev1, David Brickman1, 2, Jürgen Fischer3, Johannes Karstensen3, Dagmar Kieke4, John W Loder1, Marilena Oltmanns3, Monika Rhein4, Zeliang Wang1 and Stephen G Yeager5, (1)Bedford Institute of Oceanography, Fisheries and Oceans Canada, Dartmouth, NS, Canada, (2)University of Alberta, Edmonton, Canada, AB, Canada, (3)GEOMAR Helmholtz Centre for Ocean Research, Kiel, Kiel, Germany, (4)MARUM, University of Bremen, Bremen, Germany, (5)NCAR, Oceanography, Boulder, CO, United States