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  • Article
  • Open Access
3 Citations
4,216 Views
15 Pages

15 March 2021

A high-quality hydrographic CTD and Argo float data was used to study the property changes along the westward branch of the Mediterranean Outflow Water (MOW) in the northeast Atlantic between 1981 and 2018. In this period, the temperature and salinit...

  • Article
  • Open Access
32 Citations
5,045 Views
17 Pages

Tetrodotoxins Occurrence in Non-Traditional Vectors of the North Atlantic Waters (Portuguese Maritime Territory, and Morocco Coast)

  • Marisa Silva,
  • Inés Rodríguez,
  • Aldo Barreiro,
  • Manfred Kaufmann,
  • Ana Isabel Neto,
  • Meryem Hassouani,
  • Brahim Sabour,
  • Amparo Alfonso,
  • Luis M. Botana and
  • Vitor Vasconcelos

29 May 2019

Tetrodotoxin (TTX) is a potent alkaloid typically from tropical ecosystems, but in the last decade its presence has been more pronounced in the temperate waters of the Atlantic. In its last scientific opinion, the European Food Safety Authority (EFSA...

  • Article
  • Open Access
2 Citations
1,496 Views
21 Pages

22 November 2024

Snow cover days (SCD) have increased significantly in winter on the Western Kunlun Mountains and Eastern Pamir Plateau (hereafter referred to as KMPP for short), however the causes have not been well understood so far. Here, we use remote sensing dat...

  • Article
  • Open Access
1,061 Views
12 Pages

Water Masses and Circulation in the Chain Fracture Zone (Equatorial Atlantic)

  • Alexander Demidov,
  • Kseniya Artamonova and
  • Sergey Dobrolyubov

5 September 2025

In this study, we discuss the water masses and their transport in the Chain fracture zone (CFZ), which is a poorly studied part of the Equatorial Atlantic. Our study is based on measurements carried out during the 63rd cruise of R/V “Akademik I...

  • Article
  • Open Access
2 Citations
2,452 Views
20 Pages

On the Possible Climatic Consequences of the Large Oil Spills in Oceans

  • Nina Prokopciuk,
  • Nikolaj Tarasiuk,
  • Ulrich Franck,
  • Dean Ernest Schraufnagel,
  • Algirdas Valiulis,
  • Marina Kostantinova,
  • Tymon Zielinski and
  • Arunas Valiulis

12 October 2024

In the North Atlantic and the Northern Ocean, from the second half of 2010 to 2014, satellite imagery data showed increased surface water temperatures (in the Icelandic Depression area in September–October 2010, it was 1.3 °C higher than in...

  • Article
  • Open Access
10 Citations
3,830 Views
14 Pages

Paleoenvironment Variability during Termination I at the Reykjanes Ridge, North Atlantic

  • Alexander Matul,
  • Max S. Barash,
  • Tatyana A. Khusid,
  • Padmasini Behera and
  • Manish Tiwari

The micropaleontological study (radiolarians and foraminifera) of the sediment core AMK-340, Reykjanes Ridge, North Atlantic, combined with the radiocarbon dating and oxygen and carbon isotopic record, provided data for the reconstruction of the summ...

  • Review
  • Open Access
5 Citations
4,168 Views
13 Pages

The paper presents micropaleontological information and observations of the North Pacific diatom species Neodenticula (N.) seminae (Simonsen and Kanaya) Akiba and Yanagisawa in the surface and Holocene sediments from the North Atlantic, Nordic, and A...

  • Article
  • Open Access
98 Citations
10,975 Views
15 Pages

New Gastropod Vectors and Tetrodotoxin Potential Expansion in Temperate Waters of the Atlantic Ocean

  • Marisa Silva,
  • Joana Azevedo,
  • Paula Rodriguez,
  • Amparo Alfonso,
  • Luis M. Botana and
  • Vítor Vasconcelos

26 March 2012

Tetrodotoxin is a potent low weight marine toxin found in warm waters, especially of the Indian and Pacific Oceans. Intoxications are usually linked to the consumption of the puffer fish, although TTX was already detected in several different edible...

  • Article
  • Open Access
20 Citations
3,460 Views
23 Pages

Response of Low Flows of Polish Rivers to Climate Change in 1987–1989

  • Dariusz Wrzesiński,
  • Andrzej A. Marsz,
  • Leszek Sobkowiak and
  • Anna Styszyńska

7 September 2022

The paper discusses changes in the low-flow regime of rivers in Poland, resulting from climate change that occurred between 1987 and 1989. The low-flow variability of rivers was measured with the use of the number of days with low flows (NDLF) below...

  • Article
  • Open Access
1 Citations
3,720 Views
33 Pages

Ocean-Surface Heterogeneity Mapping (OHMA) to Identify Regions of Change

  • Rory Gordon Scarrott,
  • Fiona Cawkwell,
  • Mark Jessopp,
  • Caroline Cusack,
  • Eleanor O’Rourke and
  • C.A.J.M. de Bie

27 March 2021

Mapping heterogeneity of the ocean’s surface waters is important for understanding biogeographical distributions, ocean surface habitat mapping, and ocean surface stability. This article describes the Ocean-surface Heterogeneity MApping (OHMA) algori...

  • Review
  • Open Access
38 Citations
8,222 Views
27 Pages

Emergent Toxins in North Atlantic Temperate Waters: A Challenge for Monitoring Programs and Legislation

  • Marisa Silva,
  • Vijaya K. Pratheepa,
  • Luis M. Botana and
  • Vitor Vasconcelos

16 March 2015

Harmful Algal Blooms (HAB) are complex to manage due to their intermittent nature and their severe impact on the economy and human health. The conditions which promote HAB have not yet been fully explained, though climate change and anthropogenic int...

  • Article
  • Open Access
3 Citations
3,351 Views
17 Pages

Fine Aerosol Acidity and Water during Summer in the Eastern North Atlantic

  • Theodora Nah,
  • Junwei Yang,
  • Jian Wang,
  • Amy P. Sullivan and
  • Rodney J. Weber

13 August 2021

Aerosol pH governs many important atmospheric processes that occur in the marine boundary layer, including regulating halogen and sulfur chemistries, and nutrient fertilization of surface ocean waters. In this study, we investigated the acidity of PM...

  • Article
  • Open Access
10 Citations
6,958 Views
11 Pages

New Invertebrate Vectors of Okadaic Acid from the North Atlantic Waters—Portugal (Azores and Madeira) and Morocco

  • Marisa Silva,
  • Inés Rodriguez,
  • Aldo Barreiro,
  • Manfred Kaufmann,
  • Ana Isabel Neto,
  • Meryem Hassouani,
  • Brahim Sabour,
  • Amparo Alfonso,
  • Luis M. Botana and
  • Vitor Vasconcelos

8 December 2015

Okadaic acid and its analogues are potent phosphatase inhibitors that cause Diarrheic Shellfish Poisoning (DSP) through the ingestion of contaminated shellfish by humans. This group of toxins is transmitted worldwide but the number of poisoning incid...

  • Article
  • Open Access
959 Views
15 Pages

14 July 2025

This paper focuses on the analysis of variability of density fluxes and water mass transformation in the North Atlantic, the quantities reflecting the intensity of intermediate and deep water formation. The authors assess the influence of atmospheric...

  • Feature Paper
  • Article
  • Open Access
23 Citations
6,654 Views
13 Pages

Paralytic Shellfish Toxins Occurrence in Non-Traditional Invertebrate Vectors from North Atlantic Waters (Azores, Madeira, and Morocco)

  • Marisa Silva,
  • Verónica Rey,
  • Aldo Barreiro,
  • Manfred Kaufmann,
  • Ana Isabel Neto,
  • Meryem Hassouani,
  • Brahim Sabour,
  • Ana Botana,
  • Luis M. Botana and
  • Vitor Vasconcelos

6 September 2018

Paralytic shellfish toxins (PSTs) are potent alkaloids of microalgal and cyanobacterial origin, with worldwide distribution. Over the last 20 years, the number of poisoning incidents has declined as a result of the implementation of legislation and m...

  • Article
  • Open Access
6,090 Views
21 Pages

8 April 2022

We examine North Atlantic climate variability using an ensemble of ocean reanalysis datasets to study the Atlantic Meridional Overturning Circulation (AMOC) from 1979 to 2018. The dataset intercomparison shows good agreement for the latest period (19...

  • Article
  • Open Access
17 Citations
11,863 Views
23 Pages

Effect of Vegetation on the Late Miocene Ocean Circulation

  • Gerrit Lohmann,
  • Martin Butzin and
  • Torsten Bickert

3 November 2015

We examine the role of the vegetation cover and the associated hydrological cycle on the deep ocean circulation during the Late Miocene (~10 million years ago). In our simulations, an open Central American gateway and exchange with fresh Pacific wate...

  • Article
  • Open Access
2,698 Views
15 Pages

4 February 2023

The main objective of this study was to investigate the variability in annual counts and the northern extent of cyclones in the North Atlantic in the years 1970–2019. Cyclones were divided into tropical cyclones (TCs), called hurricanes in the...

  • Article
  • Open Access
5 Citations
9,706 Views
15 Pages

Validation of Stratification-Driven Phytoplankton Biomass and Nutrient Concentrations in the Northeast Atlantic Ocean as Simulated by EC-Earth

  • Nomikos Skyllas,
  • Richard Bintanja,
  • Anita G. J. Buma,
  • Corina P. D. Brussaard,
  • Matthias Gröger,
  • Jenny Hieronymus and
  • Willem H. van de Poll

We validated simulations of the Earth system model (ESM) EC-Earth-NEMO of present-day temperature, salinity, nutrient, and chlorophyll a profiles with in situ observations in the Northeast Atlantic Ocean (29–63º N). Simulations with standa...

  • Proceeding Paper
  • Open Access
2,114 Views
7 Pages

Water Budgets of Tropical Cyclones through a Lagrangian Approach: A Case of Study of Hurricane Irma (2017)

  • Albenis Pérez-Alarcón,
  • Raquel Nieto,
  • Luis Gimeno,
  • José C. Fernández-Alvarez,
  • Patricia Coll-Hidalgo and
  • Rogert Sorí

This study examined the water budget of Hurricane Irma (2017) through a Lagrangian approach. To identify the moisture sources for the Hurricane Irma genesis and intensification the particle dispersion model FLEXPART was used. The North Atlantic Ocean...

  • Review
  • Open Access
12 Citations
8,500 Views
21 Pages

Integrative studies on paleoclimate variations over oceanic and continental regions are scarce. Though it is known that Earth’s climate is strongly affected by sea-air exchanges of heat and moisture, the role of oceans in climate variations ove...

  • Review
  • Open Access
3,478 Views
73 Pages

AMOC and North Atlantic Ocean Decadal Variability: A Review

  • Dan Seidov,
  • Alexey Mishonov and
  • James Reagan

11 September 2025

The North Atlantic Ocean is vital to Earth’s climate system. Scientific investigations have identified the Atlantic Meridional Overturning Circulation (AMOC) as a significant factor influencing global climate change. This circulation involves o...

  • Review
  • Open Access
3,741 Views
20 Pages

Envisioning an Integrated Assessment System and Observation Network for the North Atlantic Ocean

  • Liz Coleman,
  • Frank M. Mc Govern,
  • Jurgita Ovadnevaite,
  • Darius Ceburnis,
  • Thaize Baroni,
  • Leonard Barrie and
  • Colin D. O’Dowd

24 July 2021

The atmosphere over the Atlantic Ocean is highly impacted by human activities on the surrounding four major continents. Globally, human activity creates significant burdens for the sustainability of key Earth systems, pressuring the planetary boundar...

  • Article
  • Open Access
5 Citations
2,110 Views
23 Pages

The Thermal State of the North Atlantic Ocean and Hydrological Droughts in the Warta River Catchment in Poland during 1951–2020

  • Andrzej A. Marsz,
  • Leszek Sobkowiak,
  • Anna Styszyńska,
  • Dariusz Wrzesiński and
  • Adam Perz

12 July 2023

This study presents the direct relationships between changes in the annual surface temperature of the North Atlantic (SST) and the number of days per year experiencing low flows in the Warta River catchment (WRC) in Central Europe, Poland, in the mul...

  • Article
  • Open Access
2 Citations
2,837 Views
19 Pages

6 January 2022

Because Eurasian snow water equivalent (SWE) is a key factor affecting the climate in the Northern Hemisphere, understanding the distribution characteristics of Eurasian SWE is important. Through empirical orthogonal function (EOF) analysis, we found...

  • Abstract
  • Open Access
1,984 Views
2 Pages

Horizontal and Vertical Movements of Swordfish in the Atlantic Ocean and Mediterranean Sea

  • Daniela Rosa,
  • Fulvio Garibaldi,
  • Derke Snodgrass,
  • Eric Orbesen,
  • Catarina C. Santos,
  • David Macias,
  • Josetxu Ortiz de Urbina,
  • Rodrigo Forselledo,
  • Philip Miller and
  • Rui Coelho
  • + 1 author

The swordfish (Xiphias gladius) is an epi- and mesopelagic oceanic species with a wide geographical range within the tropical and temperate waters of all oceans, and is one of the most important target species in surface-longline fisheries. In order...

  • Proceeding Paper
  • Open Access
1 Citations
2,603 Views
10 Pages

Moisture Sources for Tropical Cyclones Genesis in the Coast of West Africa through a Lagrangian Approach

  • Albenis Pérez-Alarcón,
  • Rogert Sorí,
  • José Carlos Fernández-Alvarez,
  • Raquel Nieto and
  • Luis Gimeno

Atmospheric moisture transport plays an important role in the genesis of tropical cyclones (TCs). In this study, the moisture sources associated with the genesis of TCs in the tropical Atlantic Ocean near West Africa, from June to November in the per...

  • Review
  • Open Access
40 Citations
6,833 Views
12 Pages

Climatic Indices over the Mediterranean Sea: A Review

  • Francisco Criado-Aldeanueva and
  • Javier Soto-Navarro

21 August 2020

The Mediterranean Sea, strategically situated across a dynamic frontier line that separates two regions with different climates (Europe and North Africa), has been the focus of attention of many studies dealing with its thermohaline circulation, deep...

  • Article
  • Open Access
2,046 Views
15 Pages

29 November 2023

The Gulf Stream (GS) ocean front releases intense moisture and heat to the atmosphere and regulates storm tracks and zonal jets in winter. The large-scale sea surface temperature (SST) anomaly in the central North Atlantic provides important feedback...

  • Review
  • Open Access
2 Citations
4,321 Views
13 Pages

12 June 2023

The Atlantic Meridional Overturning Circulation (AMOC) has changed dramatically during the glacial–interglacial cycle. One leading hypothesis for these abrupt changes is thermohaline instability. Here, I review recent progress towards understan...

  • Article
  • Open Access
5 Citations
6,133 Views
19 Pages

Predicting Atlantic Hurricanes Using Machine Learning

  • Victor Manuel Velasco Herrera,
  • Raúl Martell-Dubois,
  • Willie Soon,
  • Graciela Velasco Herrera,
  • Sergio Cerdeira-Estrada,
  • Emmanuel Zúñiga and
  • Laura Rosique-de la Cruz

29 April 2022

Every year, tropical hurricanes affect North and Central American wildlife and people. The ability to forecast hurricanes is essential in order to minimize the risks and vulnerabilities in North and Central America. Machine learning is a newly tool t...

  • Article
  • Open Access
2 Citations
1,049 Views
15 Pages

Water Masses of the Guiana Basin

  • Alexander Demidov,
  • Kseniya Artamonova,
  • Fedor Gippius and
  • Sergey Dobrolyubov

4 December 2024

We present the results of our expeditionary studies of the water structure on a section across the Guiana basin in the western part of the Atlantic Ocean in January 2022. The section corresponds to almost the shortest distance between South America&r...

  • Article
  • Open Access
1,143 Views
22 Pages

28 December 2024

The paper shows the idea of using GRACE solutions to determine the velocity of the Atlantic geostrophic currents at a depth of 2000 m, where the assumptions of geostrophic motion are met. The relationship between the water velocity variations and the...

  • Article
  • Open Access
3 Citations
3,482 Views
18 Pages

Changes in the density structure of the upper oceanic water masses are an important forcing of changes in the Atlantic Meridional Overturning Circulation (AMOC), which is believed to widely affect Earth’s climate. However, very little is known about...

  • Article
  • Open Access
31 Citations
4,155 Views
17 Pages

Effect of Teleconnection Patterns on Changes in Water Temperature in Polish Lakes

  • Mariusz Ptak,
  • Arkadiusz M. Tomczyk and
  • Dariusz Wrzesiński

14 February 2018

The objective of the paper was the determination of the effect of teleconnection patterns (North Atlantic Oscillation (NAO), Arctic Oscillation (AO), East Atlantic pattern (EA), East Atlantic/Western Russia (EAWR), and Scandinavian pattern (SCAND)) o...

  • Article
  • Open Access
22 Citations
5,735 Views
26 Pages

19 April 2024

The Atlantic blue crab Callinectes sapidus, which is native to the western Atlantic coast and listed among the 100 most invasive alien species in the Mediterranean Sea, is attracting a great deal of interest because of its rapid colonisation of new a...

  • Article
  • Open Access
5 Citations
2,122 Views
12 Pages

Antarctic Bottom Water Jets Flowing from the Vema Channel

  • Eugene G. Morozov,
  • Oleg A. Zuev,
  • Dmitry I. Frey and
  • Viktor A. Krechik

28 October 2022

Properties of the abyssal current of Antarctic Bottom Water (AABW) from the Vema Channel are studied based on temperature, salinity, and velocity profiler (CTD/LADCP) data. Previous studies over a period of almost 30 years revealed that very intense...

  • Technical Note
  • Open Access
5 Citations
3,316 Views
15 Pages

13 January 2023

The concept of rapid growth (RG) of tropical cyclones (TCs) in the north Atlantic basin was recently proposed. RG can represent a dangerous change in TC structure because it can rapidly ramp up the TC destructive potential. However, the nature of RG...

  • Article
  • Open Access
6 Citations
2,699 Views
18 Pages

26 February 2024

Using multiple observational and reanalysis data, this paper investigates the impact of the interdecadal shift in summer Arctic Oscillation (AO) on precipitation in East Asia, by removing ENSO influences. The results indicate that the lower-layer act...

  • Article
  • Open Access
2,674 Views
13 Pages

The relative contribution of atmospheric forcing, oceanic preconditioning, and sea ice to Labrador Sea Deep Convection (LSDC) is investigated by conducting three ensemble experiments using a global coupled sea ice–ocean model for the first time...

  • Article
  • Open Access
25 Citations
4,116 Views
20 Pages

Effect of the North Atlantic Thermohaline Circulation on Changes in Climatic Conditions and River Flow in Poland

  • Dariusz Wrzesiński,
  • Andrzej A. Marsz,
  • Anna Styszyńska and
  • Leszek Sobkowiak

6 August 2019

The purpose of this study is to find connections between the North Atlantic Thermohaline Circulation (NA THC), climate elements, such as cloud cover, precipitation, air temperature, sunshine duration, and relative humidity, and flow of rivers in Pola...

  • Feature Paper
  • Article
  • Open Access
16 Citations
4,074 Views
19 Pages

27 June 2019

The paper identifies relationships between lake water levels and indices of macroscale atmospheric circulations: Arctic Oscillation (AO), North Atlantic Oscillation (NAO), East Atlantic (EA), and Scandinavian pattern (SCAND). Correlation coefficients...

  • Article
  • Open Access
9 Citations
4,962 Views
22 Pages

Surface and Tropospheric Water Vapor Variability and Decadal Trends at Two Supersites of CO-PDD (Cézeaux and Puy de Dôme) in Central France

  • Dani Hadad,
  • Jean-Luc Baray,
  • Nadège Montoux,
  • Joël Van Baelen,
  • Patrick Fréville,
  • Jean-Marc Pichon,
  • Pierre Bosser,
  • Michel Ramonet,
  • Camille Yver Kwok and
  • Valentin Duflot

1 August 2018

We present an analysis of decadal in situ and remote sensing observations of water vapor over the Cézeaux and puy de Dôme, located in central France (45° N, 3° E), in order to document the variability, cycles and trends of surfac...

  • Article
  • Open Access
7 Citations
3,224 Views
18 Pages

Two Distinct Life History Strategies of Atlantic Sturgeon in the Ogeechee River, Georgia

  • Isaac Wirgin,
  • Adam G. Fox,
  • Lorraine Maceda and
  • John Waldman

22 February 2023

Atlantic sturgeon (Acipenser oxyrinchus oxyrinchus) is an anadromous, widely distributed, highly migratory sturgeon subspecies that occurs in rivers and marine waters along the North American Atlantic Coast. This fish has shown widespread declines an...

  • Article
  • Open Access
6 Citations
4,413 Views
24 Pages

21 May 2021

This study records the number of Peracarida (Cumacea, Isopoda, Mysida, Lophogastrida and Tanaidacea) from Algerian coastal waters. A total of 170 species are reported with the highest richness observed in the Isopoda (71 species), then the Cumacea wi...

  • Article
  • Open Access
88 Citations
5,717 Views
14 Pages

Application of Artificial Neural Networks to Rainfall Forecasting in the Geum River Basin, Korea

  • Jeongwoo Lee,
  • Chul-Gyum Kim,
  • Jeong Eun Lee,
  • Nam Won Kim and
  • Hyeonjun Kim

14 October 2018

This study develops a late spring-early summer rainfall forecasting model using an artificial neural network (ANN) for the Geum River Basin in South Korea. After identifying the lagged correlation between climate indices and the rainfall amount in Ma...

  • Review
  • Open Access
13 Citations
4,629 Views
24 Pages

Paleoceanographic Perturbations and the Marine Carbonate System during the Middle to Late Miocene Carbonate Crash—A Critical Review

  • Inga Preiss-Daimler,
  • Stergios D. Zarkogiannis,
  • George Kontakiotis,
  • Rüdiger Henrich and
  • Assimina Antonarakou

This study intends to review and assess the middle to late Miocene Carbonate Crash (CC) events in the low to mid latitudes of the Pacific, Indian, Caribbean and Atlantic Oceans as part of the global paleoceanographic reorganisations between 12 and 9...

  • Article
  • Open Access
6 Citations
4,921 Views
18 Pages

Vertical Structure of the Water Column at the Virgin Islands Shelf Break and Trough

  • Giovanni Seijo-Ellis,
  • David Lindo-Atichati and
  • Haydee Salmun

The steep US Virgin Islands Shelf Break (VISB) and the Virgin Islands Trough (VIT) at the Northeastern Caribbean Sea comprise a dynamic region of the Atlantic Ocean. In situ oceanographic data collected in the region during April 2017 were used to ex...

  • Article
  • Open Access
3 Citations
3,717 Views
11 Pages

Scandinavian Forest Fire Activity Correlates with Proxies of the Baffin Bay Ice Cover

  • Igor Drobyshev,
  • Yves Bergeron,
  • Nina Ryzhkova and
  • Alexander Kryshen

4 January 2022

Understanding factors driving fire activity helps reveal the degree and geographical variability in the resilience of boreal vegetation to large scale climate forces. We studied the association between sea ice cover in the Baffin Bay and the Labrador...

  • Article
  • Open Access
13 Citations
4,908 Views
18 Pages

13 June 2020

A majority of the existing atmospheric rivers (ARs) detection methods is based on magnitude thresholding on either the integrated water vapor (IWV) or integrated vapor transport (IVT). One disadvantage of such an approach is that the predetermined th...

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