Beckers, Jean-Marie and Hansen, Bogi and Uotila, Petteri and Duplessy, Jean-Claude and Deshayes, Julie and Visbeck, Martin and Dias, Frederic and McCarthy, Gerard and van Sebille, Erik and Eldevik, Tor and Smedsrud, Lars H. and Balino, Beatriz and Asbjørnsen, Helene and Cabral, Henrique and Estrada Miyare, Marta and Anderson, Leif G. and Palmer, Tim and Walløe, Lars and Norton, Michael (2021) A sea of change: Europe's future in the Atlantic realm. Technical Report. EASAC – the European Academies' Science Advisory Council, Germany.

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EASAC – the European Academies' Science Advisory Council – is formed by the national science academies of the EU Member States to enable them to collaborate with each other in giving advice to European policy-makers. Through EASAC, the academies work together to provide independent, expert, evidence-based advice about the scientific aspects of public policy to those who make or influence policy within the European institutions. In this report, we describe the underlying processes and trends in the Atlantic, and the ways in which the state of the ocean – currents, winds, waves and ocean mixing – impact Europe’s climate, marine environment and resources. The report describes the underlying processes and trends in the Atlantic, and the ways in which the state of the ocean – currents, winds, waves and ocean mixing – impact Europe’s climate, marine environment and resources. A dominant influence is the global thermohaline circulation which includes the Atlantic Ocean currents that transport heat and salt into northern latitudes via the Gulf Stream and North Atlantic Drift, with colder and denser waters returning south at depth; this is the Atlantic Meridional Overturning Circulation (AMOC). Superimposed on this are patterns of variability in both the atmosphere (the North Atlantic Oscillation) and the ocean (the Atlantic Multidecadal Variability). Palaeoclimatic records show that changes in these basic processes may have substantial local and global effects on climate and on marine and coastal ecosystems.

Item Type:	Monograph (Technical Report)
Additional Information:	EASAC express our gratitude to the members of our Expert Group for all the time and hard work they spent working with our Programme Director on assembling this comprehensive report
Keywords:	Atlantic Ocean currents; Atlantic Meridional Overturning Circulation; AMOC; marine environment and resources; Europe;
Academic Unit:	Faculty of Social Sciences > Geography Faculty of Social Sciences > Research Institutes > Irish Climate Analysis and Research Units, ICARUS
Item ID:	18817
Identification Number:	978-3-8047-4262-8
Depositing User:	Corinne Voces
Date Deposited:	03 Sep 2024 10:32
Publisher:	EASAC – the European Academies' Science Advisory Council
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Use Licence:	This item is available under a Creative Commons Attribution Non Commercial Share Alike Licence (CC BY-NC-SA). Details of this licence are available here

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