North Atlantic Ocean

peer reviewed Executive Summary (with an focus on the North Atlantic. For the whole summary, see the report). Sustained ocean observations, including ships, autonomous platforms, and satellites, are critical for monitoring the health of our marine ecosystems and developing effective management strat...

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Main Authors: Bode, A., Bange, H.W., Boersma, M., Bresnan, E., Cook, K., Goffart, Anne, Isensee, K., Lomas, M.W., Mozetic, P., Muller- Karger, F.E., Lorenzoni, L., O’Brien, T.D., Plourde, S., Valdés, L.
Other Authors: MARE - Centre Interfacultaire de Recherches en Océanologie - ULiège
Format: Book Part
Language:English
Published: UNESCO 2017
Subjects:
Time series
phytoplankton
nutrients
North Atlantic
Mediterranean Sea
Corsica
PhytoCly
IGMETS
zooplankton
Life sciences
Aquatic sciences & oceanology
Sciences du vivant
Sciences aquatiques & océanologie
Online Access:https://orbi.uliege.be/handle/2268/212277
https://orbi.uliege.be/bitstream/2268/212277/1/IOC-UNESCO__TS129__IGMETS-full-report%2017.pdf
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Summary:peer reviewed Executive Summary (with an focus on the North Atlantic. For the whole summary, see the report). Sustained ocean observations, including ships, autonomous platforms, and satellites, are critical for monitoring the health of our marine ecosystems and developing effective management strategies to ensure longterm provision of the marine ecosystem services upon which human societies depend. Ocean observations are also essential in the development and validation of ocean and climate models used to predict future conditions. Ship‐ based biogeochemical time series provide the high‐ quality biological, physical and chemical measurements that are needed to detect climate change‐ driven trends in the ocean, assess associated impacts on marine food webs, and to ultimately improve our understanding of changes in marine biodiversity and ecosystems. While the spatial ‘footprint’ of a single time series may be limited, coupling observations from multiple time series with synoptic satellite data can improve our understanding of critical processes such as ocean productivity, ecosystem variability, and carbon fluxes on a larger spatial scale. The International Group for Marine Ecological Time Series (IGMETS) analyzed over 340 open ocean and coastal datasets, ranging in duration from five years to greater than 50 years. Their locations are displayed in a world map (Discover Ocean Time Series, http://igmets.net/discover) and in the IGMETS information database (http://igmets.net/metabase). These cross‐ time‐ series analyses yielded important insights on climate trends occurring both on a global and regional scale. At a global level, a generalized warming trend is observed over the past thirty years, consistent with what has been published by the IPCC (2013) report as well as other research. There are regional differences in temperature trends, depending on the time window considered, which are driven by regional and temporal expressions of large‐ scale climatic forcing and atmospheric teleconnections. This warming is ...

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