Century-scale climate changes reshaped circulation patterns over the North Atlantic and adjacent regions during the last glacialto-interglacial transition. Here, we show that vegetation across eastern North America shifted dramatically at the beginning and end of the Younger Dryas chronozone (YDC: 12,900–11,600 cal yr B.P.), when changes in ocean circulation rapidly cooled and then warmed the N...

Chlorofluorocarbon (CFC) and hydrographic data collected in the North Atlantic in the late 1980s and early 1990s are used to confirm and add to earlier work on the large-scale circulation pathways and timescales for the spreading of North Atlantic Deep Water (NADW) components and how these components relate to the hydrographic structure. Throughout he western North Atlantic, high CFC concentrat...

Here we present a new, pan-Atlantic compilation and analysis of data on Calanus finmarchicus abundance, demography, dormancy, egg production and mortality in relation to basin-scale patterns of temperature, phytoplankton biomass, circulation and other environmental characteristics in the context of understanding factors determining the distribution and abundance of C. finmarchicus across its No...

The variability of North Atlantic tropical storm and hurricane tracks, and its relationship to climate variability, is explored. Tracks from the North Atlantic hurricane database for the period 1950–2007 are objectively separated into four groups using a cluster technique that has been previously applied to tropical cyclones in other ocean basins. The four clusters form zonal and meridional sep...

Hexachlorocyclohexanes (HCHs) were determined simultaneously in air and seawater during two cruises across the Atlantic Ocean between the Arctic Ocean (Ny-Alesund/ Svalbard, 79 degrees N; 12 degrees E) and the Antarctic Continent (Neumayer Station/ Ekstroem Ice Shelf, 70 degrees S; 8.2 degrees W) in 1999/ 2000. The concentrations of alpha-HCH and gamma-HCH in air and surface waters of the Arcti...

During the twentieth century sea surface temperatures in the Atlantic Ocean exhibited prominent multidecadal variations. The source of such variations has yet to be rigorously established—but the question of their impact on climate can be investigated. Here we report on a set of multimodel experiments to examine the impact of patterns of warming in the North Atlantic, and cooling in the South A...

Two common indicators of Atlantic climate variability, viz., the North Atlantic oscillation (NAO) and the crossintertropical convergence zone (ITCZ) sea surface temperature (SST) gradient, are examined for their frequency characteristics and midlatitude-tropical links. SST anomalies north and south of the ITCZ are found to be uncorrelated on all time scales, while the sea level pressure (SLP) f...

16 17 The North Atlantic is the most important sink for atmospheric CO2 although there still 18 remain uncertainties about the total amount stored by this region and the contribution of 19 the anthropogenic CO2 (CANT) that is exchanged between the Mediterranean Sea and the 20 Atlantic Ocean. During the P3A2 cruise performed in October 2008 throughout the 21 oceanic area covered by the Gulf of C...

The major tracer activity of the last four years was the completion in 1983 of a survey of the North and Tropical Atlantic begun in 1981 as part of the Transient Tracers in the Ocean (TTO) project (Brewer, et al., 1985). An early set of papers (Brewer et al., 1983, and Swift, 1984) discussed evidence from these observations for the freshening of the North Atlantic due to cessation of overflow a...

Loen, NORWAY, 7-11 May, 2001 The original version of this material will be published by the Research and Technology Organization, North Atlantic Treaty Organization (RTO/NATO) in Meeting Proceedings, MP-069 "Advanced Flow Management, Part A Vortex Flow and High Angle of Attack", in the Spring 2002. For permission to copy or republish, contact the NATO/RTO Research and Technology Agency, BP 25 7...