Climate-driven change in the North Atlantic and Arctic Ocean can greatly reduce the circulation of the North Sea

• Published in: Geophysical Research Letters
• Main Authors: Holt, Jason, Polton, Jeff, Huthnance, John, Wakelin, Sarah, O’Dea, Enda, Harle, James, Yool, Andrew, Artioli, Yuri, Blackford, Jerry, Siddorn, John, Inall, Mark
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: English
• Published: 2018
• Subjects: Arctic; Arctic Ocean; Waters River; Climate change; North Atlantic; Phytoplankton
• Online Access: http://nora.nerc.ac.uk/id/eprint/521404/; https://nora.nerc.ac.uk/id/eprint/521404/8/Holt_et_al-2018-Geophysical_Research_Letters.pdf; https://doi.org/10.1029/2018GL078878

We demonstrate for the first time a direct oceanic link between climate‐driven change in the North Atlantic and Arctic oceans and the circulation of the northwest European shelf‐seas. Downscaled scenarios show a shutdown of the exchange between the Atlantic and the North Sea, and a substantial decre...