PowerPoint Presentation - Interannual Variability of Satellite-Derived Sea Surface Temperature in the Western North Atlantic Shelf and Slope, 1985-1999

Adapted from Drinkwater et al. (1999).

Propagation of the 1997/1998 “Cold Event” in satellite derived SST


	•Shipboard measurements were used to track the intrusion of cold and fresh LSW into the MAB region. Rectangles indicate approximate timing (month/year) of the leading edge of the LSW intrusion along the Scotian shelf and northern MAB during 1997-1998. Shown in black are the coastline, the 200m and 1000m isobaths on the local bathymetry.
	•****These results validate that SST is a good way to track LSW instrusions****

	•Dong and Kelly, 2003: shift in winds shifts GS to the south in 1996, slope sea gyre circulation intensifies.