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More than a century of oceanic hydrography observations reveals profound climate-related changes in the Northwest Atlantic Ocean and its Arctic Gateways
Jonathan Coyne
CORRESPONDING AUTHOR
Northwest Atlantic Fisheries Centre, Fisheries and Oceans Canada, St. John's, NL, Canada
Centre for Fisheries and Ecosystem Research, Fisheries and Marine Institute of Memorial University, St. John's, NL, Canada
formerly at: Northwest Atlantic Fisheries Centre, Fisheries and Oceans Canada, St. John’s, NL, Canada
Sheila Atchison
Freshwater Institute, Fisheries and Oceans Canada, Winnipeg, MB, Canada
Charlie Bishop
Northwest Atlantic Fisheries Centre, Fisheries and Oceans Canada, St. John's, NL, Canada
Sébastien Donnet
Institut National des Sciences et Techniques de la Mer, Cherbourg, France
Peter S. Galbraith
Maurice-Lamontagne Institute, Fisheries and Oceans Canada, Mont-Joli, QC, Canada
Maxime Geoffroy
Centre for Fisheries and Ecosystem Research, Fisheries and Marine Institute of Memorial University, St. John's, NL, Canada
Department of Arctic and Marine Biology, UiT, The Arctic University of Norway, Tromsø, Norway
David Hebert
Bedford Institute of Oceanography, Fisheries and Oceans Canada, Dartmouth, NS, Canada
Chantelle Layton
Bedford Institute of Oceanography, Fisheries and Oceans Canada, Dartmouth, NS, Canada
Andry Ratsimandresy
Northwest Atlantic Fisheries Centre, Fisheries and Oceans Canada, St. John's, NL, Canada
Jose-Luis del Rio Iglesias
Servicios Centrales, Instituto Español de Oceanografía, Madrid, Spain
Jean-Luc Shaw
Maurice-Lamontagne Institute, Fisheries and Oceans Canada, Mont-Joli, QC, Canada
Stephen Snook
Northwest Atlantic Fisheries Centre, Fisheries and Oceans Canada, St. John's, NL, Canada
Nancy Soontiens
Northwest Atlantic Fisheries Centre, Fisheries and Oceans Canada, St. John's, NL, Canada
Elena Tel
Centro Oceanografío de Vigo, Instituto Español de Oceanografía, Vigo, Spain
Wojciech Walkusz
Freshwater Institute, Fisheries and Oceans Canada, Winnipeg, MB, Canada
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As part of the new Fisheries Act, Fisheries and Oceans Canada (DFO) has made it a priority to make oceanographic data publicly available. The Canadian Atlantic Shelf Temperature-Salinity (CASTS) aims to address this priority, by creating an open-access data product that includes most of the historical temperature and salinity profiles in Atlantic Canada and its Arctic gateways since 1873.
As part of the new Fisheries Act, Fisheries and Oceans Canada (DFO) has made it a priority to...
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