European Climate Extremes and the North Atlantic Oscillation

Cod and climate: effect of the North Atlantic Oscillation on recruitment in the North Atlantic

The impact of the environment on interannual variability in fish recruitment has proven difficult to establish empirically, and environment-recruitment correlations have often been found to break down when more data become available. This may suggest that the statistical models have failed to capture the essential explanatory variables, or that environment-recruitment relationships are non-stat...

North Atlantic climate variability: The role of the North Atlantic Oscillation

Article history: Marine ecosystems are und Received 22 November 2006 Received in revised form 14 May 2007 Accepted 24 November 2008 Available online 20 February 2009

Climate : North Atlantic and Arctic Oscillation ( NAO / AO )

Atlantic Ocean forcing of North American and European summer climate.

Recent extreme events such as the devastating 2003 European summer heat wave raise important questions about the possible causes of any underlying trends, or low-frequency variations, in regional climates. Here, we present new evidence that basin-scale changes in the Atlantic Ocean, probably related to the thermohaline circulation, have been an important driver of multidecadal variations in the...

An Overview of the North Atlantic Oscillation

The North Atlantic Oscillation (NAO) is one of the most prominent and recurrent patterns of atmospheric circulation variability. It dictates climate variability from the eastern seaboard of the United States to Siberia and from the Arctic to the subtropical Atlantic, especially during boreal winter, so variations in the NAO are important to society and for the environment. Understanding the pro...