ATLAS Policy Brief - Changing Ocean State and its Impact on Natural Capital

• Main Authors: Spooner Peter, Thornalley David, Stuart, Cunningham, Murray, Roberts J
• Format: Text
• Language: unknown
• Published: Zenodo 2020
• Subjects: Greenland; Norway; Iceland; North East Atlantic
• Online Access: https://dx.doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.3946683; https://zenodo.org/record/3946683

Executive Summary • Ocean circulation is a dominant controller of the locations and abundances of important marine ecosystem resources. • Changing circulation has already led to political disputes among the UK, Iceland, Norway, the EU and Greenland. • These changes are likely to continue. • Climate models do not capture the full range of variability in the North-East Atlantic, so continued observations and improved biological understanding are both needed to assess oceanographic change and its ecological implications.