Earth System Science Data
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Earth System Science Data
Articles | Volume 13, issue 5
Articles | Volume 13, issue 5
Earth Syst. Sci. Data, 13, 1807–1828, 2021
https://doi.org/10.5194/essd-13-1807-2021
© Author(s) 2021. This work is distributed under
the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 License.
Earth Syst. Sci. Data, 13, 1807–1828, 2021
https://doi.org/10.5194/essd-13-1807-2021
© Author(s) 2021. This work is distributed under
the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 License.
Articles | Volume 13, issue 5

Data description paper 03 May 2021

Data description paper | 03 May 2021

A climate index for the Newfoundland and Labrador shelf

Frédéric Cyr and Peter S. Galbraith

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Newfoundland and Labrador climate index Frédéric Cyr and Peter S. Galbraith https://doi.org/10.20383/101.0301

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Climate indices are often regarded as simple ways to relate mean environmental conditions to the state of an ecosystem. Such indices are often used to inform fisheries scientists and managers or used in fisheries resource assessments and ecosystem studies. 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 relevant for the NL shelf.
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