Climate variations influence North Atlantic winter storm intensity and resultant variations in wave energy levels. A 60 year hindcast allows investigation of the influence of decadal climate variability on long-term trends of North Atlantic wave power, PW, spanning the 1948–2008 epoch. PW variations over much of the eastern North Atlantic are strongly influenced by the fluctuating North Atlanti...

Down-core variations in North Atlantic Paxs / Thxs have been interpreted as changes in the strength of the Atlantic Meridional Overturning Circulation (AMOC). This modelling study confirms that hypothetical changes in the AMOC would indeed be recorded as changes in the distribution of sedimentary Paxs / Thxs. At different sites in the North Atlantic the changes in sedimentary Pa / Th that we si...

The intertidal biota of the North Atlantic is characterized by two disjunct communities (North American and European) exposed to different climatic regimes during the Pleistocene and in the Holocene. We collect multilocus DNA sequence data from the nearshore fish Pholis gunnellus to help uncover processes determining biogeographical persistence during periodic coastal glaciations. Coalescent-ba...

Sudden changes of the Atlantic meridional overturning circulation (AMOC) are believed to have caused large, abrupt climate changes over many parts of the globe during the last glacial and deglacial period. This study investigates the mechanisms by which a large freshwater input to the subarctic North Atlantic and an attendant rapid weakening of the AMOC influence North Pacific climate by analyz...

This study has used TOMS AI as well as the reanalysis dataset of thirty-four years (1979-2012) to investigate the influence of atmospheric circulation on dust transport during the Harmattan period in West Africa, using Aerosol Index (AI) data, obtained from various satellite sensors. Changes in Inter-Tropical Discontinuity (ITD), Sea Surface Temperature (SST) over the Gulf of Guinea, and North ...

The blue shark (Prionace glauca) is a large pelagic carcharhinid that is widely distributed in the world’s oceans. Throughout its range, it is considered the most abundant species of large shark (McKenzie and Tibbo, 1964; Casey, 1982). In the Atlantic, the blue shark is distributed from Newfoundland to Argentina in the west and Norway to South Africa, including the Mediterranean, in the east (C...

The North Atlantic is believed to represent the largest ocean sink for atmospheric carbon dioxide in the Northern Hemisphere, yet little is known about its temporal variability. We report an 18-year time series of upper-ocean inorganic carbon observations from the northwestern subtropical North Atlantic near Bermuda that indicates substantial variability in this sink. We deduce that the carbon ...

Fresh water hosing simulations, in which a fresh water flux is imposed in the North Atlantic to force fluctuations of the Atlantic Meridional Overturning Circulation, have been routinely performed, first to study the climatic signature of different states of this circulation, then, under present or future conditions, to investigate the potential impact of a partial melting of the Greenland ice ...

Benthic foraminiferal faunas in a piston core from 3331 meters at 44 degrees N on the Mid-Atlantic Ridge show striking variations in the relative abundance of species. Uvigerina peregrina, which is broadly distributed today in the South Atlantic and in the Pacific in water that has been long isolated from the surface, is absent in the North and Equatorial Atlantic at depths occupied by highly o...

the main objective of this study was to reveal the impact of nine climate indices on temperature changes and climate oscillations in golestan province along the southern coast of the caspian sea. climate indices data from across the atlantic-eurasian sector were collected from the ncep/ncar, the climate prediction centre (cpc) and the climatic research unit (cru) over a period of 40 years (1971...