For the benefit of MAR-ECO participants and the planning process, a document on the general large-scale circulation in the North-Atlantic region is presented. More information on physical oceanography in the North-Atlantic may be found by visiting the following sources: NASA Goddard Space Flight Center SeaWiFS Project ICES, The Annual Ocean Climate Status Summary 2000/2001 Climate Variability and Predictability CLIVAR WOCE Atlantic Atlas horizontal Maps MAST-II EUROFLOAT-project For more information, please contact Henrik Søiland (henriks@imr.no), Institute of Marine Research, Bergen. |