What happened in the mid-1990s? The coupled ocean-atmosphere processes behind climate-induced ecosystem changes in the Northeast Atlantic and the Mediterranean

• Published in: Deep Sea Research Part II: Topical Studies in Oceanography
• Main Authors: Alheit, Jürgen, Gröger, Joachim P., Licandro, Priscilla, McQuinn, Ian H., Pohlmann, Thomas, Tsikliras, Athanassios C.
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: English
• Published: Elsevier 2019
• Subjects: The Sentinels; North Atlantic; North Atlantic oscillation; Northeast Atlantic
• Online Access: https://oceanrep.geomar.de/id/eprint/44708/; https://oceanrep.geomar.de/id/eprint/44708/6/1-s2.0-S0967064517303922-main.pdf; https://doi.org/10.1016/j.dsr2.2018.11.011

Northeast Atlantic marine ecosystems such as the Bay of Biscay, Celtic Sea, English Channel, Subpolar Gyre region, Icelandic waters and North Sea as well as the Mediterranean Sea show concomitant ‘regime shift’-like changes around the mid-1990s, which involved all biota of the pelagial: phytoplankto...