Variability in the ICES/NAFO region between 1950 and 2009: observations from the ICES Report on Ocean Climate
Abstract Hughes, S. L., Holliday, N. P., Gaillard, F., and the ICES Working Group on Oceanic Hydrography, 2012. Variability in the ICES/NAFO region between 1950 and 2009: observations from the ICES Report on Ocean Climate. – ICES Journal of Marine Science, 69: 706–719. The ICES Report on Ocean Clima...
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croxfordunivpr:10.1093/icesjms/fss044 2024-01-21T10:08:17+01:00 Variability in the ICES/NAFO region between 1950 and 2009: observations from the ICES Report on Ocean Climate Hughes, Sarah L. Holliday, N. Penny Gaillard, Fabienne 2012 http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/icesjms/fss044 http://academic.oup.com/icesjms/article-pdf/69/5/706/29144334/fss044.pdf en eng Oxford University Press (OUP) ICES Journal of Marine Science volume 69, issue 5, page 706-719 ISSN 1095-9289 1054-3139 Ecology Aquatic Science Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics Oceanography journal-article 2012 croxfordunivpr https://doi.org/10.1093/icesjms/fss044 2023-12-22T09:51:19Z Abstract Hughes, S. L., Holliday, N. P., Gaillard, F., and the ICES Working Group on Oceanic Hydrography, 2012. Variability in the ICES/NAFO region between 1950 and 2009: observations from the ICES Report on Ocean Climate. – ICES Journal of Marine Science, 69: 706–719. The ICES Report on Ocean Climate presents the latest information on the status and trends of sea temperature and salinity in the North Atlantic and Nordic Seas. It is the main product of the ICES Working Group on Oceanic Hydrography, published annually. Bringing together multiple time-series from across the ICES and NAFO regions offers insight into the concurrent spatial and temporal trends in ocean temperature and salinity. This paper presents an overview of the physical variability in the North Atlantic Ocean at decadal and longer time-scales and reviews the current state of understanding of the causes and mechanisms of this variability. Between the 1960s and the 1990s, the North Atlantic Oscillation (NAO) index increased from a persistent negative phase in the 1960s to a strong positive phase during the 1980s and early 1990s. However, during the decade 2000–2009, because of shifts in atmospheric pressure patterns, the NAO was weak and the NAO index was not a good indicator of atmospheric forcing. Marked changes were also observed in oceanographic indices such as the Subpolar Gyre index during the mid-1990s and, as a consequence, conditions in the decade 2000–2009 have been very different from those of the previous four decades. Article in Journal/Newspaper Nordic Seas North Atlantic North Atlantic oscillation Oxford University Press (via Crossref) ICES Journal of Marine Science 69 5 706 719 |
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Abstract Hughes, S. L., Holliday, N. P., Gaillard, F., and the ICES Working Group on Oceanic Hydrography, 2012. Variability in the ICES/NAFO region between 1950 and 2009: observations from the ICES Report on Ocean Climate. – ICES Journal of Marine Science, 69: 706–719. The ICES Report on Ocean Climate presents the latest information on the status and trends of sea temperature and salinity in the North Atlantic and Nordic Seas. It is the main product of the ICES Working Group on Oceanic Hydrography, published annually. Bringing together multiple time-series from across the ICES and NAFO regions offers insight into the concurrent spatial and temporal trends in ocean temperature and salinity. This paper presents an overview of the physical variability in the North Atlantic Ocean at decadal and longer time-scales and reviews the current state of understanding of the causes and mechanisms of this variability. Between the 1960s and the 1990s, the North Atlantic Oscillation (NAO) index increased from a persistent negative phase in the 1960s to a strong positive phase during the 1980s and early 1990s. However, during the decade 2000–2009, because of shifts in atmospheric pressure patterns, the NAO was weak and the NAO index was not a good indicator of atmospheric forcing. Marked changes were also observed in oceanographic indices such as the Subpolar Gyre index during the mid-1990s and, as a consequence, conditions in the decade 2000–2009 have been very different from those of the previous four decades. |
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Variability in the ICES/NAFO region between 1950 and 2009: observations from the ICES Report on Ocean Climate |
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Variability in the ICES/NAFO region between 1950 and 2009: observations from the ICES Report on Ocean Climate |
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Variability in the ICES/NAFO region between 1950 and 2009: observations from the ICES Report on Ocean Climate |
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Variability in the ICES/NAFO region between 1950 and 2009: observations from the ICES Report on Ocean Climate |
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Variability in the ICES/NAFO region between 1950 and 2009: observations from the ICES Report on Ocean Climate |
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variability in the ices/nafo region between 1950 and 2009: observations from the ices report on ocean climate |
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