The impact of human activity since the Industrial Revolution has altered the environment, pushing its stability to critical limits, with real implications for societal, economic and environmental systems. The planetary boundaries framework has provided a powerful tool for communicating the individual and collective threats arising from unsustainable post-industrial development, yet actions and responses take place at regional, national and local levels. The North Atlantic is a key earth system component, surrounded by densely populated countries. It is particularly vulnerable to the effects of climate change owing to its interface with the Arctic, its housing of the Greenland ice shelf and the interlinked circulation patterns that have a profound impact on global climate variability and the carbon cycle. The North Atlantic atmosphere is influenced by natural and anthropogenic emissions. Environmental impacts arising from changes to the North Atlantic atmosphere will have major global consequences.
This study aims to conduct a detailed assessment of current national and international atmospheric research activities and evaluate the performance of research outputs from the North Atlantic research community in addressing major environmental challenges facing society today: air quality and climate change

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