The central role of the Labrador Sea in the ventilation of the deep North Atlantic

Jaime B Palter1, Una Miller2, Ellen Park3, Dariia Atamanchuk4, Kristen E Fogaren5, Yao Fu6, Johannes Karstensen7, Jannes Koelling4, Isabela Alexander-Astiz Le Bras8, Hiroki Nagao9, David P Nicholson10, Hilary I Palevsky11 and Meg F. Yoder11, (1)University of Rhode Island, Graduate School of Oceanography, Narragansett, United States, (2)University of Rhode Island, Graduate School of Oceanography, Narragansett, Rhode Island, United States, (3)Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution, Marine Chemistry and Geochemistry, Woods Hole, United States, (4)Dalhousie University, Department of Oceanography, Halifax, NS, Canada, (5)Boston College, Earth and Environmental Sciences, Chestnut Hill, United States, (6)University of South Florida, Tampa, United States, (7)Helmholtz Centre for Ocean Res, Kiel, Germany, (8)Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution, Woods Hole, United States, (9)MIT/WHOI Joint Program in Oceanography/Applied Ocean Sciences and Engineering, Woods Hole, United States, (10)Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution, Marine Chemistry and Geochemistry, Woods Hole, MA, United States, (11)Boston College, Earth and Environmental Sciences, Chestnut Hill, MA, United States