The North Atlantic Oscillation: Past, present, and future

By Martin Visbeck, J. Hurrell, L. Polvani, H. Cullen. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America, 2001

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Spring arrival response to climate change in birds: a case study from eastern Europe (2006, background): “Our research tested the claim by Visbeck et al. (2001) and Tryjanowski et al. (2002) that the NAO impact on the environment and spring arrival is stronger in western and central Europe, as well as along the sea coast, than in eastern Europe.”
State of the climate in 2010 (2011, background): “The reduced pressure gradient causes a southward displacement and weakening of the westerlies across the midlatitudes and meanwhile slackens the trade winds in the tropical oceans (Hurrell 1995; Visbeck et al. 2001).”
CLIMATE CAUSES LARGE-SCALE SPATIAL SYNCHRONY IN POPULATION FLUCTUATIONS OF A TEMPERATE HERBIVORE (2005, background): “The North Atlantic Oscillation (NAO) is a global climate phenomenon (Visbeck et al. 2001) and is expressed by an index based on the difference in normalized sea level pressures between Lisbon, Portugal, and Stykkisholmur, Iceland, from 1864 through 2002 for the winter period (see Climate and Global…”
Potential impacts of climate change and greenhouse gas emissions on Mediterranean marine ecosystems and cetaceans (2008, background): “…is likely to contribute to the positive phase of the NAO, which was responsible for warmer winters in Europe in the last 10–20 years (Hurrell, 1996; Visbeck et al., 2001; Gillet et al., 2003; Cohen & Barlow, 2005) and El Niño conditions may be more frequent with global warming (Timmermann et…”
Using large-scale climate indices in climate change ecology studies (2004, background): “In fact, the NAO may be the vehicle through which anthropogenic forcing of Northern Hemisphere climate change is operating (Visbeck et al. 2001).”
Multidecadal trends in North American Atlantic salmon (Salmo salar) stocks and climate trends relevant to juvenile survival (2003, background): “The persistent state of the North Atlantic Oscillation in its positive anomaly has been interpreted as an indication of a global-warming impact on the dominant atmospheric circulation pattern in the North Atlantic area (Visbeck et al. 2001).”
Foraging behavior of little auks in a heterogeneous environment (2003, background): “Fluctuations in weather patterns and oceanic conditions have been attributed to the dynamics of the North Atlantic Oscillation (NAO) (Hurrell 1995, Hurrell et al. 2001, Visbeck et al. 2001).”
Timing of spring migration in birds: long-term trends, North Atlantic Oscillation and the significance of different migration routes (2005, neutral): “Cotton (2003) found a negative correlation between the mean winter temperature anomalies for Africa south of 208 N and spring arrival in Oxfordshire but, unlike Visbeck et al. (2001), he found no correlation between sub-Saharan winter temperatures and winter NAO index.”
Major pathways by which climate may force marine fish populations (2010, background): “The positive NAO anomaly has again been suggested to be linked to a global-warming impact in the North Atlantic sector (Visbeck et al., 2001).”
Estimating the pattern of synchrony in fluctuating populations (2005, background): “The NAO is a global climate phenomenon (Visbeck et al. 2001; Hurrell et al. 2003).”
The ocean's response to North Atlantic Oscillation variability (2013, background): “The NAO is now widely recognized as the most significant pattern of climate variability in the North Atlantic Sector and a strong competitor to ENSO in terms of global significance [e.g. Marshall et al. 2001b; Hurrell et al. 2001; Visbeck et al. 2001].”
Changes in Canadian seabird populations and ecology since 1970 in relation to changes in oceanography and food webs (2009, background): “The NAO index experienced an unprecedented increase from the 1960s through 1990s (Visbeck et al. 2001).”
Why are bird migration dates shifting? A review of weather and climate effects on avian migratory phenology (2007, background): “Therefore, the advance of arrival dates observed during recent decades could be due to the prevalence of the positive mode of the NAO from 1980 onwards, especially during the winter (Visbeck et al. 2001, Osborn 2006).”
Contrasting sensitivity to extreme winter warming events of dominant sub‐Arctic heathland bryophyte and lichen species (2011, background): “Despite these challenges, several studies suggest that discrete wintertime warming events have become and will become even more frequent in circumpolar regions (Visbeck et al. 2001; Callaghan et al. 2010).”
Temperature and rainfall anomalies in Africa predict timing of spring migration in trans-Saharan migratory birds (2007, background): “Such large-scale climate connections (e.g. Visbeck et al. 2001) may result in a correlation between meteorological conditions in different regions at different times of the year.”