North Atlantic Ocean
The Atlantic Ocean is the second-largest of the world's oceans, with an area of about 106,460,000 km2 (41,100,000 sq mi). It covers approximately 20 percent of Earth's surface and about 29 percent of its water surface area. It is known to separate the "Old World" from the "New World" in the European perception of the World. The Atlantic Ocean occupies an elongated, S-shaped basin extending longitudinally between Europe and Africa to the east, and the Americas to the west. As one component of the interconnected World Ocean, it is connected in the north to the Arctic Ocean, to the Pacific …
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PIK: Potsdam-Institut fur Klimafolgenforschung · 3 October 2024 English
Global emission reduction efforts continue to be insufficient to meet the temperature goal of the Paris Agreement1. This makes the systematic exploration of so-called overshoot pathways that temporarily exceed a …
global land and ocean areas as well as the North Atlantic Ocean (north of 45° N) and Western and Northern …
Wildfish: Wildfish Conservation · 17 September 2024 English
Due to increasing resistance to chemicals traditionally used to treat sea lice infestations, the salmon farming industry has in recent years focused on the use of cleaner fish to consume …
significant increase in wave height in the North Atlantic Ocean over the 20th century. Global and Planetary … salmon lice are dispersed throughout the North Atlantic Ocean. Royal Society Open Science, 8(5), p.210265 …
Nordic Co-operation | Nordic Council & Nordic Council of Ministers · 16 September 2024 English
The construction sector is a major global GHG emitter, responsible for 40% of carbon emissions and 50% of raw material use it's crucial to drastically reduce the sector's carbon footprint …
Akranes’s Langisandur Beach, facing the vast North Atlantic Ocean. They are a testament to the positive effect …
PIK: Potsdam-Institut fur Klimafolgenforschung · 13 September 2024 English
Pronounced spatial disparities in heatwave trends are bound up with a diversity of atmospheric signals with complex variations, including different phases and wavenumbers. However, assessing their relationships quantitatively remains a …
A. et al. Drivers of exceptionally cold North Atlantic Ocean temperatures and their link to the 2015 …
PIK: Potsdam-Institut fur Klimafolgenforschung · 2 September 2024 English
A collapse of the Atlantic Meridional Overturning Circulation (AMOC) would have substantial impacts on global precipitation patterns, especially in the vulnerable tropical monsoon regions. We assess these impacts in experiments …
Oceanic link between abrupt changes in the north Atlantic Ocean and the African monsoon. Nature Geoscience … Piotrowski, A. M., & Keigwin, L. D. (2016). North Atlantic Ocean circulation and abrupt climate change during …
PIK: Potsdam-Institut fur Klimafolgenforschung · 2 September 2024 English
Long-term trends in flood losses are regulated by multiple factors including climate variation, demographic dynamics, economic growth, land-use transitions, reservoir construction and flood risk reduction measures. The attribution of those …
European sea regions (N. Atlantic: exposed north Atlantic Ocean coasts – mostly France and Spain; North …
UN: The United Nations · 29 August 2024 English
33 p. ill., graphs, mapsThe report on the State of the Climate in Africa 2023 is the fourth in the series of the annual African report, with a special focus …
reflecting positive SSTs in the eastern tropical North Atlantic Ocean (Figure 8b). The Tropical Southern Atlantic …
Humanitarian Outcomes · 25 August 2024 English
This report provides a comprehensive analysis of the most dangerous year on record for aid workers, driven by conflicts in Gaza, Sudan, and South Sudan. The report highlights the increasing …
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EU: European Union · 26 July 2024 English
Hurricane Beryl set a precedent for what is predicted to be an extremely active hurricane season for the entire Atlantic basin. This hurricane intensified at an explosive rate to become …
Detailed Timeline 28 June Beryl formed in the North Atlantic Ocean on 28 June as a tropical depression and … Beryl continued moving westward over the North Atlantic Ocean, streghtening into tropical storm (with … 00 UTC, its centre was located over the North Atlantic Ocean approximately 285 km south-east of St. Vincent …
CAFS: Center for Agriculture and Food Systems · 23 July 2024 English
Spiegel, Assistant Professor of Law in the Center for Agriculture and Food Systems at Vermont Law School. [...] Acknowledgments This guide would not have been possible without the assistance, cooperation, …
Then, momentum was Caribbean Sea and the North Atlantic Ocean with halted with the storms. a population …