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Bookmark or Share- Labrador Current | Arctic, Atlantic, Cold Water | BritannicaLabrador Current, surface oceanic current flowing southward along the west side of the Labrador Sea. Originating at the Davis Strait, the Labrador Current is a combination of the West Greenland Current, the Baffin Island Current, and inflow from Hudson Bay. The current is cold and has a low.
- What controls the pathways of the Labrador Current?The Labrador Current, which flows from the Arctic Ocean, transports cold waters southwards, producing a cooling effect on the Atlantic provinces in Canada and on the United States' northeast coast from Maine to Massachusetts.
- Labrador Current - WikipediaThe Labrador Current is a cold current in the North Atlantic Ocean which flows from the Arctic Ocean south along the coast of Labrador and passes around Newfoundland, continuing south along the east coast of Canada near Nova Scotia.
- Labrador Current - The Canadian EncyclopediaThe Labrador Current, famous for icebergs and once-abundant cod fish, is a southeasterly flow of water over the continental shelf and slope east of Newfoundland and Labrador, between Hudson Strait and the southern tip of the Grand Banks.
- The Labrador CurrentThe Labrador Current is the "southward" flowing component of the N. Atlantic subpolar gyre. It transports cold waters into the warmer Gulf Stream ring and meander region. Click here for example plots of seasonal averages. Figure 2.
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