The 1882 tilefish kill - a cold event in shelf waters off the north-eastern United States?

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作者
Marsh, R
Petrie, B
Weidman, CR
Dickson, RR
Loder, JW
Hannah, CG
Frank, K
Drinkwater, K
机构
[1] Southampton Oceanog Ctr, James Rennell Div Ocean Circulat, Southampton SO14 3ZH, Hants, England
[2] Fisheries & Oceans Canada, Bedford Inst Oceanog, Dartmouth, NS B2Y 4A2, Canada
[3] Woods Hole Oceanog Inst, Dept Marine Geol & Geophys, Woods Hole, MA 02543 USA
[4] Ctr Environm Fisheries & Aquaculture Sci, Lab, Lowestoft NR33 0HT, Suffolk, England
关键词
Labrador Current; NAO; tilefish kill;
D O I
10.1046/j.1365-2419.1999.00092.x
中图分类号
S9 [水产、渔业];
学科分类号
0908 ;
摘要
A mass mortality of 'warm-water' tilefish in the Middle Atlantic Eight between April and August of 1882 suggests an episode of extreme cold in the shelf waters off the north-eastern United States. This cooling is hypothesized to be a consequence of enhanced equatorwards transport of cold water in the Labrador Current, coincident with a minimum in the North Atlantic Oscillation (NAO) index during the early 1880s. Although there is little direct evidence for this historical event, an analogue for the 1880s cooling is found in the 1960s, at the most recent NAO-index minimum. Post-1945 observations in the Middle Atlantic Eight / Gulf of Maine region reveal changes in winter baroclinic circulation between cool and warm decades, with greater equatorward penetration of south-westwards flow along the shelf-edge during the cool 1960s. Over the period 1934-77, the NAO is found to account for 17% of the interannual variance in Labrador Current transport around the Grand Banks. Proxy evidence for the cold episode of the early 1880s is sought. Records of bottom temperature in the Middle Atlantic Eight region are reconstructed using stable oxygen isotopic analysis on the annual bands of shells of a bivalve mollusc (Arctica islandica) and an empirical model of covariability with local air temperature. The result is confirmation of the presence of anomalously cold water during the early 1880s.
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