State of the ocean

Lawrence, of The seasonal range of the surface waters over which the largest runoff comes from the St. [...] This trend was generally observed temperatures has been an increase in the area of at all depths and throughout the entire region ocean covered by ice including peaks in the although the exact timing of the minima and areal ice extent during the times of temperature maxima varied slightly. [...] These conditions are related to the however, the bottom temperatures have large scale atmospheric circulation patterns and generally remained warm (with a short cold in particular the winter winds over the Labrador spell in the early 1990s) while the cold Sea. [...] However, ice lasted The temperature trends throughout the water longer-than-normal leading to a longer duration column from the 1940s to the mid-1980s and of ice especially in the northern Gulf. [...] Changes in the slope water above normal conditions during the spring, characteristics are in turn dependent upon the summer and especially the autumn.