Ocean Climate

The Ocean Climate Status Summary for the NAFO Convention Area

Bathymetric features of the Northwest Atlantic,
the NAFO Convention Area and Historical
ICNAF/NAFO Oceanographic Sections

Prepared by the NAFO Scientific Council Standing Committee on Fisheries Environment (STACFEN)

Contributors: Sub-area 0, 1 (B. Cisewski, J. Mortensen), Sub-area 2, 3 (E. Colbourne, I. Yashayaev, M. Ringuette, D. Belanger and
G. Maillet), SubDiv 3M (E. Colbourne, A. Perez-Rodriguez, A. Cabrero and G. Gonzalez-Nuevo)
Sub-area 4 (D. Hebert, C. Johnson, S. Plourde, M. Starr) and Sub-area 5, 6 (P. Fratantoni).

Links to related information:
Canadian Science Advisory Secretariat (CSAS) Integrated Science Data Management (ISDM) ICES Working Group Oceanic Hydrography (WGOH) Atlantic Zone Monitoring Program (AZMP)

Data sources, contacts and references are included at the end of each subarea document.

Oceanography - Archive

NAFO Areas and Currents

30 August 2018

NAFO Areas and Currents

2017

Click on the subareas of the map to download the reports for each area

The 2017 Ocean Climate Status Summary for NAFO S. A. 1-6, Large Scale Forcing

30 August 2018

The 2017 Ocean Climate Status Summary for NAFO S. A. 1-6, Large Scale Forcing

General Climate Indicators within the NAFO Convention Area: NAO, SST, Air Temperature, and Ice cover

Oceanographic conditions in NAFO waters are to a large degree determined by the strength of the winter atmospheric circulation over the Northwest Atlantic, measured by the NAO Index.
The North Atlantic Oscillation (NAO) index as defined by Rogers (1984) is the difference in winter (December, January and February) sea level atmospheric pressures between the Azores and Iceland.