High-Resolution Regional Ocean Climatologies with the Northwest Atlantic as an Example: A Review

Figure 1: NCEI regional climatologies completed to date marked on the sea surface temperature field from World Ocean Atlas (WOA18). The abbreviations of the regional climatology names are: ARC - Arctic Regional Climatology, EAS - East Asian Seas, GINS - Greenland, Iceland, and Norwegian Seas; GOM - Gulf of Mexico version 2; NEP - Northeast Pacific, NNP - Northern North Pacific; NWA - Northwest Atlantic, and SWNA - Southwest North Atlantic.
Figure 1: NCEI regional climatologies completed to date marked on the sea surface temperature field from World Ocean Atlas (WOA18). The abbreviations of the regional climatology names are: ARC - Arctic Regional Climatology, EAS - East Asian Seas, GINS - Greenland, Iceland, and Norwegian Seas; GOM - Gulf of Mexico version 2; NEP - Northeast Pacific, NNP - Northern North Pacific; NWA - Northwest Atlantic, and SWNA - Southwest North Atlantic.

ESSIC scientist Alexey Mishonov is lead author on a new paper in Journal of Marine Science Research and Oceanography titled “High-Resolution Regional Ocean Climatologies with the Northwest Atlantic as an Example: A Review”.

 

In the article, the researchers present a review of the locations, timing, purpose, and specificity of the regional ocean climatologies developed at the National Center for Environmental Information of the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration. They describe the Northwestern Atlantic Regional Climatology, version 2 in detail and demonstrate how this regional climatology contributes to a better understanding of the long-term climate state and variability.

 

Mishonov is a researcher with extensive experience in various fields of oceanography, including ocean color, water transmissivity and particulate organic carbon study, oceanographic data management, analysis, and climate research.

 

To access the paper, click here: “High-Resolution Regional Ocean Climatologies with the Northwest Atlantic as an Example: A Review”.