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Maps resulting from Spatial Prioritisation carried out for iAtlantic - Systematic Conservation Planning reported in D5.3 and included in MS25

This data publication contains maps resulting from spatial prioritisations conducted for the iAtlantic D5.3 report on Systematic Conservation Planning of the wider Atlantic Ocean based on results generated by the iAtlantic project. The maps were produced using the prioritizr R package (Hanson et al. 2023), which identifies priority areas for achieving specific conservation goals while minimising costs. The various prioritisations were developed to address multiple research questions related to: (1) identifying priority areas for conservation and restoration, (2) transboundary conservation, (3) climate-smart conservation planning, and (4) protecting 30% of the Atlantic Ocean, including 10% under strict protection. The results are organised into subfolders based on the research questions addressed and further categorised into data-rich and data-poor regions, along with aggregate results for each region. Further, the results are organised into subfolders representing multiple scenarios executed using various cost layers, including area-based, Global Fishing Watch (GFW, 2023) benthic, GFW total fishing, Global Fisheries Landings (GFL, Watson 2019) v4.0 benthic, and GFL v4.0 total landings. Each map filename provides descriptive information about the executed scenario.

Atlantic, Pacific and Mean Deep Ocean temperature and δ¹⁸Oseawater stacks

Stacked deep-water (>2500m) deconvolved benthic Mg/Ca–δ18O records spanning the past 1.5 Myr for: the North Atlantic comprising IODP Site U1385 [Uvigerina peregrina and Globobulimina affinis] and DSDP Site 607 [Cibicidoides wuellerstorfi, Oridorsalis umbonatus, and Uvigerina spp.] (Sosdian and Rosenthal, 2009; Ford et al., 2016); the Pacific incorporating ODP Sites 1123 [Uvigerina spp.] (Elderfield et al., 2012) and Site 1208 [Uvigerina spp.] (Ford and Raymo, 2020); and, Mean Deep Oceans including all of the above plus ODP Site 1094 [Melonis pompilioides] (Hasenfratz et al., 2019). To investigate changes in abyssal ocean density stratification across the Middle Pleistocene Transition estimates of deep-water temperature and δ18Oseawater were generated with error propagation using PSU Solver in MATLAB (Thirumalai, Quinn and Marino, 2016). PSU Solver-derived δ18O, temperature and δ18Oseawater records for each site were interpolated on a 3 kyr interval and bootstrapped. Stacks were manually created by first identifying gaps in each site's original data and then averaging the means and errors across each age interval.

Multibeam bathymetry processed data (Atlas Hydrosweep DS 3 echo sounder entire dataset) of RV POLARSTERN during cruise PS127, Atlantic Ocean

Multibeam data were collected during RV Polarstern cruise PS127 (2021-12-04 to 2022-01-02). Multibeam sonar system was Atlas Hydrographic Hydrosweep DS 3 multibeam echo sounder. Data are processed with Caris HIPS, including sound velocity correction with SV data from SVPs, CTDs, UCTDs and World Ocean Atlas 13 (https://doi.org/10.7289/v5f769gt), tidal correction with TPXO9_atlas_v5 (https://www.tpxo.net), and manual cleaning. The soundings are combined in daily files, the format is XYZ ASCII (<Lon> <Lat> <Depth in meters, positive up, relative to mean sea level>). Additional blockmedian grids have been computed with depth dependent cell size to visualize the data. These grids are not meant for scientific analysis or navigation, but for overview purposes only.

Multibeam bathymetry processed data (Atlas Hydrosweep DS 3 echo sounder entire dataset) of RV POLARSTERN during cruise PS132, Transit, Atlantic Ocean

Multibeam data were collected during RV Polarstern cruise PS132 (2022-08-31 to 2022-09-29). Multibeam sonar system was Atlas Hydrographic Hydrosweep DS 3 multibeam echo sounder. Data are processed with Caris HIPS, including sound velocity correction with SV data from CTDs, XBTs and World Ocean Atlas 18 (https://www.ncei.noaa.gov/archive/accession/NCEI-WOA18), tidal correction with TPXO9_atlas_v5 (https://www.tpxo.net), and manual cleaning. The soundings are combined in daily files, the format is XYZ ASCII (<Lon> <Lat> <Depth in meters, positive up, relative to mean sea level>). Additional blockmedian grids have been computed with depth dependent cell size to visualize the data. These grids are not meant for scientific analysis or navigation, but for overview purposes only.

Dissolved organic matter molecular composition data for multiple oceanographic cruises with RV SONNE (SO254, SO245, SO248) and RV POLARSTERN (PS79), Bermuda Atlantic Time-series Study and Hawaii Ocean Time-series

This data includes the dissolved organic matter (DOM) molecular composition data obtained via Fourier-transform ion cyclotron resonance mass spectrometry for multiple oceanographic cruises collected in the Atlantic, Pacific and Southern oceans (HOTS, BATS, SO254, SO245, SO248, ANT 28-II, ANT 28-IV, and 28-V) between 2009 and 2017. This analysis was conducted to assess the molecular composition of DOM in the context of ocean mixing. DOM was extracted and desalted using the solid phase extraction method as described in Dittmar et al. 2008. The extracts were stored frozen in methanol until analysis in 2019, when aliquots of the extracts were mixed with 50% ultrapure water (50:50 v/v) and diluted to a final carbon concentration of 2.5 ppm. DOM composition was determined on a SolariX XR FT-ICR-MS (Bruker Daltonik GmbH, Bremen, Germany) equipped with a 15 Tesla superconducting magnet and an electrospray ionization source (ESI; Bruker Apollo II ion source) in negative ion mode, as described in (Bercovici, Dittmar, and Niggemann 2022). Subsequent data processing and molecular formula assignment was conducted in ICBM-OCEAN, as described in (Merder et al. 2020).

Kurzfristige Variabilität von Klima und Ozeanographie des subtropischen Nordwest-Atlantik

Mit detaillierten paläo-ozeanographischen Zeitserien soll das Wechselspiel zwischen nord- und südatlantischen Wassermassen und die Veränderlichkeit des transäquatorialen Wärmestromes rekonstruiert werden. Über Passagen in den Kleinen Antillen fließt warmes Oberflächenwasser aus dem Nordatlantik durch das Tobago Becken in die Karibik. Dieses Wasser fließt weiter in den Golf von Mexiko, dem Ursprungsgebiet des warmen Golfstromes. Das hier beantragte Vorhaben konzentriert sich auf die mikropaläontologische Auswertung von Sedimentmaterial, das im Rahmen der fünften Expedition des internationalen IMAGES Projektes im Juni 1999 im Tobago Becken gewonnen wurde. Feinskalige Paläo-Oberflächentemperaturprofile sollen für die letzten 150.000 bis 200.000 Jahre mit Hilfe der statistischen Bearbeitung der Vergesellschaftung planktonischer Foraminiferen entlang eines 38 m langen Sedimentkernes erstellt werden. Damit sollen kurzfristige Variabilitäten im Warmwasserpool des subtropischen Nordatlantik nachgezeichnet und versucht werden, zeitliche und mechanistische Querbezüge zu den raschen Klimawechsel im nördlichen Nordatlantik abzuleiten.

Gletscher und Klima am Übergang vom Spätglazial zum Holozän in den Alpen

Gut datierte Gletschervorstöße sind eine wertvolle klimageschichtliche Informationsquelle, weil Gletscher unmittelbar auf Klimaänderungen reagieren. In diesem Zusammenhang ist der Zeitabschnitt von der ausgehenden Jüngeren Dryas (Grönland-Stadial 1) bis zum Ende des Boreals im frühen Holozän besonders interessant. Er ist durch eine sehr rasche Erwärmung um etwa 11.5 ka charakterisiert, die sich dann etwas gedämpfter weiter fortsetzte. Diese Erwärmung wurde durch eine Reihe von klimatischen 'events' (Präboreale Oszillation, Erdalen-event, 9.3 und 8.2 ka event) unterbrochen, die vor allem im europäisch-atlantischen Sektor kurze und kräftige Abkühlung brachten und im Alpenraum in einen Rahmen von allgemein gletscherungünstigen Klimaverhältnissen eingebettet sind. Das Projekt hat zum Ziel, die Gletschervorstöße in diesem Zeitraum näher zu durchleuchten. Der Schwerpunkt wird auf einem System von Moränen liegen, das besonders bei kleineren Gletschern gut erhalten ist, und das eine vermittelnde Stellung zwischen den Moränen der Jüngeren Dryas und denen des 'Little Ice Age' (Neuzeit) einnimmt. Bisher sind derartige Moränen erst an drei Stellen datiert, wobei sich widersprechende Alter und damit zeitliche Einstufungen ergaben (PBO, Erdalen event, 8.2 ka event). Besonders interessant ist daher die Frage, ob und wie kleine Alpengletscher auf den 8.2 ka event reagiert haben, und welche klimageschichtlichen Schlußfolgerungen sich daraus ableiten lassen. Die Testgebiete befinden sich in Gebieten, die für eine klimageschichtliche Interpretation günstig gelegen sind und das entsprechende Moräneninventar aufweisen. Es handelt sich dabei vor allem um die westliche Silvrettagruppe (nordwestlicher Alpenrand mit Übergang zum zentralen Alpenraum), das Karwendelgebirge (nördlicher Alpenrand) und die westlichen Ötztaler Alpen (inneralpines Trockengebiet). Die Datierung soll in bewährter Weise mit den kosmogenen Radionukliden 10Be und 36Cl in enger Zusammenarbeit mit dem Institut für Teilchenphysik an der ETHZ erfolgen. Für die klimageschichtliche Interpretation werden die Energie- und Massenbilanzgleichung an der Gleichgewichtslinie, empirische Niederschlags-Temperaturmodelle und positive Gradtagsmodelle herangezogen. Die dafür zusätzlich nötigen Klimainformationen (vor allem Sommertemperatur) werden aus allen sinnvoll verwertbaren Proxydatenquellen der entsprechenden Zeitabschnitte entnommen. Damit können Änderungen der Niederschlagsstrukturen im Alpenraum und Hinweise auf die atmosphärischen Zirkulationsverhältnisse in Zeiträumen eines raschen Klimawandels hergeleitet werden.

Seawater carbonate chemistry and growth, survival and Chlorophyll a fluorescence parameters of Fucus vesiculosus L.(Phaeophyceae) in a seasonally fluctuating environment

Global change exposes brown algal Fucus vesiculosus populations to increasing temperature and pCO2, which may threaten individuals, in particular the early life-stages. Genetic diversity of F. vesiculosus populations is low in the Baltic compared to Atlantic populations. This might jeopardise their potential for adaptation to environmental changes. Here, we report on the responses of early life-stage F. vesiculosus to warming and acidification in a near-natural scenario maintaining natural and seasonal variation (spring 2013–2014) of the Kiel Fjord in the Baltic Sea, Germany (54°27ʹN, 10°11ʹW). We assessed how stress sensitivity differed among sibling groups and how genetic diversity of germling populations affected their stress tolerance. Warming increased growth rates of Fucus germlings in spring and in early summer, but led to higher photoinhibition in spring and decreased their survival in late summer. Acidification increased germlings' growth in summer but otherwise showed much weaker effects than warming. During the colder seasons (autumn and winter), growth was slow while survival was high compared to spring and summer, all at ambient temperatures. A pronounced variation in stress response among genetically different sibling groups (full-sib families) suggests a genotypic basis for this variation and thus a potential for adaptation for F. vesiculosus populations to future conditions. Corroborating this, survival in response to warming in populations with higher diversity was better than the mean survival of single sibling groups. We conclude that impacts on early life-stages depend on the combination of stressors and season and that genetic variation is crucial for the tolerance to global change stress.

Modeled environmental data-layers and changes predicted under RCP2.6, 4.5 and 8.5 for the deep Atlantic Ocean

The data layers provided show current values for seawater temperature, pH, calcite and aragonite saturation (%), oxygen concentration, and particulate organic carbon (POC) flux to the seafloor at different depths (500, 1000, 2000, 3000, and 4000m) at the present day (1951-2000) and changes in these variables expected between 2041-2060 and 2081-2100 under different RCP scenarios. The data layers were generated following the methods described in Levin et al. (2020). In short, in 2019, we obtained the present day and future ocean projections for the different years which were compiled from all available data generated by Earth Systems Models as part of the Coupled Model Inter-comparison Project Phase 5 (CMIP5) to the Fifth Assessment Report of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change. Three Earth System Models, including GFDL‐ESM‐2G, IPSL‐CM5A‐MR, and MPI‐ESM‐MR were collected and multi-model averages of temperature, pH, O2 , export production at 100-m depth (epc100), carbonate ion concentration (co3), and carbonate ion concentration for seawater in equilibrium with aragonite (co3satarg) and calcite (co3satcalc) were calculated. The epc100 was converted to export POC flux at the seafloor using the Martin curve (Martin et al., 1987) following the equation: POC flux = export production*(depth/export depth)0.858. The export depth was set to 100 m, and the water depth using the ETOPO1 Global Relief Model (Amante and Eakins, 2008). Seafloor aragonite and calcite saturation were computed by dividing co3 by co3satarg and co3satcalc. All variableswere reported as the inter-annual mean projections between 1951-2000, 2041-2060, and 2081-2100. The data for calcite and aragonite saturation can be found in Morato et al. (2020).

Column water vapour (CWV) measurements in NetCDF format retrieved from GNSS antenna gathered during Polarstern cruise PS147

The ship campaign PS147 (Atlantic Transit) with the German research vessel Polarstern took place from 12 March to 14 April 2025. The transit proceeded from Stanley, Falkland Islands, to Bremerhaven, Germany, with a stopover in Mindelo, Cape Verde, dividing the campaign into two sections, PS147/1 and PS147/2. During the voyage, several climate zones were crossed, including the Intertropical Convergence Zone (ITCZ). Here, we present the column water vapour retrieved from GNSS data. These data form part of a series of standardized datasets of atmospheric observations collected during the PS147 campaign.

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