CLIMATE CHANGE AT HIGH LATITUDES: AN ILLUMINATING EXAMPLE

• Published in: Zygon®
• Main Author: Pickart, Robert S.
• Other Authors: National Science Foundation
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: English
• Published: Open Library of the Humanities 2018
• Subjects: Arctic; Arctic Ocean; Austin; Bering Strait; Carr; Van Pelt; Climate change; Phytoplankton
• Online Access: http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/zygo.12406; https://api.wiley.com/onlinelibrary/tdm/v1/articles/10.1111%2Fzygo.12406; https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/pdf/10.1111/zygo.12406; https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full-xml/10.1111/zygo.12406; https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/am-pdf/10.1111/zygo.12406

Abstract A striking example is presented of a newly observed phenomenon in the ice‐covered Arctic Ocean that appears to be a consequence of changes in the physical forcing. In summer 2011, a massive phytoplankton bloom was observed north of the Bering Strait, between Russia and the United States, un...