The ICES Reports on Ocean Climate or IROC (formerly known as the ICES Annual Ocean Climate Status Summary) provide summary information on climatic conditions in the North Atlantic for the following periods:

2008
2007
2006
2005
2004/2005
2003/2004
2002/2003
2001/2002
2000/2001
1999/2000
1998/1999

The reports are written by the Working Group on Oceanic Hydrography to disseminate information from sustained observations at standard sections and stations.

The IROC is a much observed and prominent product of the ICES work. Therefore, when citing please acknowledge the source of the data and the correct citation:

Hughes, S. L., and Holliday, N. P. (Eds). 2007. ICES Report on Ocean Climate 2006. ICES Cooperative Research Report No. 289. 55 pp.

A high resolution version of the 2006 report (CRR 289) can be found here:

Cover
Part 1
Part 2
Part 3
Part 4
Part 5

IROC2006 data
A ZIP file with the IROC2006 data files can be downloaded here.

Related climate status reports:

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Ocean Climate - Baltic Sea

Ocean Climate - North-West European Shelf

Global Climate Statements by World Meteorological Organisation (WMO).

Reports by the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC)

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