Description:	The Newfoundland and Labrador (NL) climate index aims to describe the environmental conditions on the NL shelf and in the Northwest Atlantic as a whole. It consists of annual normalized anomalies of 10 subindices with equal contribution: Winter North Atlantic Oscillation, air temperature, sea ice, icebergs, sea surface temperature, vertically-averaged temperature and salinity at Station~27, cold intermediate layer (CIL) core temperature at Station~27, CIL area on 3 hydrographic sections and bottom temperature on the NL shelf. This index runs from 1951 to 2019 and will be updated annually. Data associated with Cyr, F. and Galbraith, P. S.: A climate index for the Newfoundland and Labrador shelf, Earth Syst. Sci. Data, 13, 1807–1828, https://doi.org/10.5194/essd-13-1807-2021, 2021.
Authors:	Cyr, Frédéric; Fisheries and Oceans Canada; Memorial University of Newfoundland; 0000-0002-1581-7502 Galbraith, Peter S.; Fisheries and Oceans Canada; 0000-0002-5587-6881
Keywords:	Newfoundland and Labrador Climate Physical Oceanography Ocean Atmosphere Environmental index Ecosystem studies
Field of Research:	Earth and related environmental sciences > Oceanography > Physical oceanography
Publication Date:	2020-11-16
Publisher:	Federated Research Data Repository / dépôt fédéré de données de recherche
URI:	https://doi.org/10.20383/101.0301
Related Identifiers:	This dataset is cited by https://doi.org/10.5194/essd-13-1807-2021 This dataset cites https://doi.org/10.20383/102.0739
Geographic Coverage:	Province / Province / Territory Newfoundland and Labrador Territory   Country Canada Place Name Northwest Atlantic Ocean