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Climate change impacts on the atmospheric circulation, ocean, and fisheries in the southwest South Atlantic Ocean: a review

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We present an interdisciplinary review of the observed and projected variations in atmospheric and oceanic circulation within the southwestern South Atlantic focused on basin-scale processes driven by climate change, and their potential impact on the regional fisheries. The observed patterns of atmospheric circulation anomalies are consistent with anthropogenic climate change. There is strong scientific evidence suggesting that the Brazil Current is intensifying and shifting southwards during the past decades in response to changes in near-surface wind patterns, leading to intense ocean warming along the path of the Brazil Current, the South Brazil Bight, and in the Río de la Plata. These changes are presumably responsible for the poleward shift of commercially important pelagic species in the region and the long-term shift from cold-water to warm-water species in industrial fisheries of Uruguay. Scientific and traditional knowledge shows that climate change is also affecting small-scale fisheries. Long-term records suggest that mass mortalities decimated harvested clam populations along coastal ecosystems of the region, leading to prolonged shellfishery closures. More frequent and intense harmful algal blooms together with unfavorable environmental conditions driven by climate change stressors affect coastal shellfisheries, impact economic revenues, and damage the livelihood of local communities. We identify future modelling needs to reduce uncertainty in the expected effects of climate change on marine fisheries. However, the paucity of fisheries data prevents a more effective assessment of the impact of climate change on fisheries and hampers the ability of governments and communities to adapt to these changes.

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The support of the Instituto Nacional de Investigación y Desarrollo Pesquero (INIDEP, Argentina) is acknowledged. Three anonymous referees provided important suggestions that substantially strengthened the manuscript.

Funding

This research was partially funded by project VOCES from the Inter-American Institute for Global Change Research (CRN3070, which was funded by the US NSF grant GEO-1128040). B.F. was supported by Consejo Nacional de Investigaciones Científicas y Técnicas (CONICET) and Agencia Nacional de Promoción Científica y Tecnológica (ANCYPT-grant PICT 2015-0508), Argentina. O.D. was also supported by Comisión Sectorial de Investigación Científica (CSIC Grupos ID 32), Uruguay. L.P. was supported by CAPES project 23038.004304/2014-28, CNPq project 443013/2018-7, and fellowship 304009/2016-4, Brazil.

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  1. Centro de Investigaciones del Mar y la Atmósfera (CIMA)/CONICET-UBA, Buenos Aires, Argentina

    Bárbara C. Franco & Carolina Vera

  2. Instituto Franco-Argentino sobre Estudios de Clima y sus Impactos (UMI3351-IFAECI)/CNRS, Buenos Aires, Argentina

    Bárbara C. Franco, Alberto R. Piola & Carolina Vera

  3. Facultad de Ciencias, UNDECIMAR, Montevideo, Uruguay

    Omar Defeo & Ignacio Gianelli

  4. Departamento Oceanografía, Servicio de Hidrografía Naval (SHN), Buenos Aires, Argentina

    Alberto R. Piola

  5. Departamento de Ciencias de la Atmósfera y los Océanos, Universidad de Buenos Aires, Buenos Aires, Argentina

    Alberto R. Piola & Carolina Vera

  6. Departamento de Ciencias de la Atmósfera, Facultad de Ciencias, Universidad de la Republica, Montevideo, Uruguay

    Marcelo Barreiro

  7. Climate Sciences, Alfred Wegener Institute, Helmholtz Centre for Polar and Marine Research, Bremerhaven, Germany

    Hu Yang

  8. Dirección Nacional de Recursos Acuáticos (DINARA), Montevideo, Uruguay

    Leonardo Ortega

  9. Instituto de Oceanografia, Universidade Federal do Rio Grande (FURG), Rio Grande, Brazil

    Jorge P. Castello & Osmar O. Möller

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    Claudio Buratti & Marcelo Pájaro

  11. Facultad de Ciencias Exactas y Naturales, UNMDP, Mar del Plata, Argentina

    Claudio Buratti

  12. Coordenação Geral de Observação da Terra (OBT), Instituto Nacional de Pesquisas Espaciais (INPE), São José dos Campos, Brazil

    Luciano P. Pezzi

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The review emerged from the collaboration of experts in different disciplines key for the scope of the paper from Argentina, Uruguay, and Brazil. BF conceived and developed the idea and design of the original manuscript; led Sections 1, 2, and 5; helped to connect the various contributions of each discipline; prepared the original manuscript; and critically revised all versions of manuscript. MB and HY led Sections 3.1 and 4.1. AP and BF led Sections 3.2 and 4.2. AP also made substantial contributions and revised critically all versions of manuscript. OD, LO, and IG led Sections 3.3 and 4.3; refined the content and scope of the original manuscript; made substantial contributions; and critically revised all versions of the manuscript. BF adapted Figure 1 and prepared Figure 2, HY developed Figure 4, IG prepared Figures 3 and 5, and OD prepared Supplementary Table S1. All authors contributed according their expertise and approved the final manuscript.

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Franco, B.C., Defeo, O., Piola, A.R. et al. Climate change impacts on the atmospheric circulation, ocean, and fisheries in the southwest South Atlantic Ocean: a review. Climatic Change 162, 2359–2377 (2020). https://doi.org/10.1007/s10584-020-02783-6

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