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A climate index for the Newfoundland and Labrador shelf
Northwest Atlantic Fisheries Centre, Fisheries and Oceans Canada, St. John's, NL, Canada
Physics and Physical Oceanography, Memorial University of Newfoundland, St. John's, NL, Canada
Peter S. Galbraith
Maurice Lamontagne Institute, Fisheries and Oceans Canada, Mont-Joli, QC, Canada
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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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