Final report of the Fisheries Oceanography Committee 2003 Annual Meeting

The issues at the origin of the WG were raised at the FOC-AZMP workshop and recommendations about how to enhance monitoring of nekton and the pelagic community were made to the AZMP. [...] The North Atlantic Oscillation (NAO) index is the difference in winter (December to February) sea level atmospheric pressures between the Azores and Iceland and is a measure of the strength of the winter westerly winds over the northern North Atlantic. [...] The areal coverage was less than the long-term median and close to the long-term minimum for the beginning of the year. [...] The time series of the duration of ice (top) and the annual integrated ice area (summation of the area times the number of days). [...] The minimum temperature within the Cold Intermediate Layer (CIL) slightly declined by 0.1°C in the deep parts of the Gulf and over the Magdalen Shallows (Fig.