Atlantification

English

Etymology

Atlantic +‎ -ification

Noun

Atlantification (uncountable)

1. (historical) The process of joining or being influenced by the Atlantic bloc countries.
   • 1952, Ferdinand Otto Miksche, Unconditional Surrender: The Roots of a World War III, page 279:

     Of course it is clear that with things as they are to-day, every precaution would have to be taken in bringing about the 'Atlantification' of Germany.

   • 1954, Review of International Affairs - Volume 5, page 238:

     The Soviet Union thus should make a vital concession by agreeing to withdraw from the Eastern Zone. 2) Simultaneous de-Atlantification of the Western Germany. The Atlantic Bloc should also make a vital concession by withdrawing from the Western Zone and abandoning all plans for the integration of Germany into the E.D.C.

   • 1995, Kristiaan Versluys, Charles Altieri, The Insular Dream: Obsession and Resistance, page 361:

     The globalization of culture implies a commercialization, a massification and an "Americanization," or rather "Atlantification," a complex, large-scale integration process on many levels.

2. The intrusion of water from the Atlantic ocean into another ocean or sea, and the resultant environmental and biological changes.
   • 2005, C. A. Brebbia, Air Pollution Thirteen, page 108:

     The concurrent "Atlantification" of the seasonal ice-cover zone may result in an expansion of Atlantic species northwards and significant changes in biomass, seasonal variation and spatial distribution of phytoplankton.

   • 2018, Mark C. Serreze, Brave New Arctic: The Untold Story of the Melting North, page 214:

     This increased “Atlantification” of the Arctic, which may well be a temporary thing given what we now know, explains why the Barents Sea region has seen so little winter sea ice in recent years, and, in turn, why there is a big positive trend in the winter surface air temperatures in this area (fig. 10).

   • 2019, Klaus Dodds, Mark Nuttall, The Arctic: What Everyone Needs to Know®, page 71:

     Below the water's surface, meanwhile, the Atlantification and Pacification of the Arctic continues apace.