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Atlantic meridional mode
The Atlantic meridional mode (AMM) is the dominant mode of coupled ocean-atmosphere variability in the tropical Atlantic, an anomalous north-south sea surface temperature gradient across the equator.
Atlantic meridional overturning circulation
Atlantic meridional overturning circulation (AMOC): basin-scale Atlantic current system moving ~17 Sv northward and ~1.2 PW of heat, driven by Labrador and Nordic Seas deep-water formation; monitored by RAPID since 2004 and projected to weaken 18–43% by 2100.
Atlantic multidecadal oscillation
The Atlantic multidecadal oscillation (AMO), or Atlantic multidecadal variability (AMV), is a fluctuation of North Atlantic sea surface temperature on a 60–80 year time scale, linked to rainfall and hurricanes.
Atlantic Niño
The Atlantic Niño is an episodic warming of the eastern equatorial Atlantic Ocean, a smaller, shorter counterpart of Pacific El Niño that peaks in boreal summer and affects Sahel rainfall.
Atlantic Northwest Africa
Atlantic Northwest Africa is FEOW freshwater ecoregion 501, a Palearctic temperate coastal rivers unit along Morocco, Western Sahara, Mauritania, Algeria, and Spain, with Iberian faunal elements, Africa's only native salmonid, and high endemism.
Atlantic Ocean
The Atlantic Ocean is Earth's second largest ocean basin, about 106,460,000 km² (20% of Earth's surface), between the Americas and Europe-Africa, home of the AMOC and Gulf Stream.
Atlantic Ocean Road
The Atlantic Ocean Road (Atlanterhavsvegen) is an 8.3 km scenic road in Møre og Romsdal, Norway, crossing eight bridges between Vevang and Kårvåg, opened in 1989.
Atlantic puffin
Atlantic puffin (Fratercula arctica, Macareux moine), a small North Atlantic auk nesting in burrows from Maine to Iceland; IUCN Vulnerable, Iceland holds about half the global population, and Maine colonies were restored by Project Puffin from about 70 pairs.
Atlantic Records
Atlantic Records, American label founded 1947 in New York by Ahmet Ertegun and Herb Abramson; R&B and soul pioneer, acquired by Warner Bros. in 1967, now WMG's largest frontline label with Ed Sheeran, Cardi B, and Lizzo.
Atlantic Revolutions
Atlantic Revolutions: historiographical term coined by Godechot and Palmer in the 1950s for the connected American, French, Haitian, and Spanish American revolutions, roughly 1776 to 1826, spanning four continents.
Atlantic Rim (film)
Atlantic Rim (2013), also released as Attack from Beneath, is The Asylum's $500,000 mockbuster of Pacific Rim, directed by Jared Cohn, starring David Chokachi, Treach, and Graham Greene, released on DVD July 9, 2013.
Atlantic salmon
Atlantic salmon (Salmo salar), the only salmon native to the Atlantic Ocean, an anadromous fish spawning in rivers and feeding at sea. Wild US populations are endangered in Maine; farmed salmon, first raised in Norway in the 1970s, dominate markets.
Atlantic Shore
Atlantic Shore is a surfing sports venue on Playa de Nemiña in Cee, A Coruña, Galicia, Spain, on the Costa da Morte; coordinates 43.01103 N, 9.26306 W, near Surf House Nemiña. Distinct from the New Jersey campground, Maine railway, and baseball program of the same name.
Atlantic Shores Offshore Wind
Atlantic Shores Offshore Wind is a proposed offshore wind farm off New Jersey, a joint venture of EDF Renewables and Shell, with its South project federally approved in 2024.
Atlantic slave trade
Atlantic slave trade (transatlantic slave trade): forced transport of 10-12 million enslaved Africans to the Americas, 16th-19th centuries, via the triangular trade and Middle Passage; about 2 million died at sea; documented in the SlaveVoyages database.
Atlantic Southeast Airlines Flight 529
Atlantic Southeast Airlines Flight 529 crashed near Carrollton, Georgia, on August 21, 1995, after a propeller blade separated in flight, killing 9 of the 29 aboard.
Atlantic star
Atlantic Star is a 2001 Queen Games board game by Dirk Henn, a retheme of Showmanager, in which 2-6 players charter steamships for cruises on four seas and score in one-to-five-star classes; Spiel des Jahres recommended 2002.
Atlantic Starr
Atlantic Starr, first recorded as Newban, is an American R&B band formed in White Plains, New York, by three Lewis brothers, best known for the hits "Secret Lovers" and "Always".
Atlantic Sun Conference
Atlantic Sun Conference (ASUN), formerly Trans America Athletic Conference, an NCAA Division I athletic conference founded 1978, headquartered in Jacksonville, Florida; eight full-time members from July 2026 and a football partnership with the United Athletic Conference.
Atlantic Telegraph Company
The Atlantic Telegraph Company was a British-American enterprise, registered in London in 1856, that laid the first transatlantic cable in 1858 and the first permanent one in 1866.
Atlantic Terminal
Atlantic Terminal, formerly Flatbush Avenue, is the western terminal of the Long Island Rail Road's Atlantic Branch in Downtown Brooklyn, connected to the Barclays Center subway complex.
Atlantic Theater Company
Atlantic Theater Company, an Off-Broadway theater in Chelsea, Manhattan, founded from David Mamet and William H. Macy's NYU Practical Aesthetics workshops; home of the Atlantic Acting School and Tony-winning productions like Spring Awakening and Kimberly Akimbo.
Atlantic Time Zone
The Atlantic Time Zone (Atlantic Standard Time) is a time zone in eastern Canada, Puerto Rico, and the U.S. Virgin Islands, keeping UTC−4, or UTC−3 in summer.
Atlantic Wall
The Atlantic Wall (Atlantikwall) was Nazi Germany's 1942–1945 coastal defense line of bunkers and obstacles from northern Norway to the Spanish border, built by Organisation Todt with over 1.5 million workers including forced labor, and breached at Normandy on D-Day, 6 June 1944.
Atlantic wolffish
Atlantic wolffish (Anarhichas lupus), also called seawolf or Atlantic catfish, is a North Atlantic bottom fish with crushing teeth; overfished in U.S. waters, Special Concern in Canada, and heavily fished in Iceland.
Atlanticism
Atlanticism is the political doctrine favoring close North American-European cooperation, embodied in NATO (founded 1949) and rooted in the Marshall Plan. It contrasts with Europeanism and strategic autonomy in EU security debates.
Atlántico
Atlántico, Colombian Caribbean department created 1905 by Ley 17 under Rafael Reyes, re-created 1910; capital Barranquilla; 22 municipalities; ~2.9 million people; leading Caribbean-region economy, tourism and agroindustry.
Atlantics
Atlantics (Atlantique) is Mati Diop's 2019 Wolof-language debut feature, a Dakar-set supernatural drama about Ada, Souleiman, and migration; it won the Cannes Grand Prix and streamed on Netflix.
Atlantification of the Arctic
Atlantification of the Arctic is the growing influence of warm, salty Atlantic Water in the Arctic Ocean, which warms the region and reduces its sea ice.
Atlantique Department
Atlantique, a department of southern Benin (French: Département de l'Atlantique), capital Allada; 3,233 km², eight communes including Abomey-Calavi and Ouidah; 1,398,229 inhabitants at the 2013 census, the most populous department.