Wintertime controls on summer stratification and productivity at the western Antarctic Peninsula

• Published in: Limnology and Oceanography
• Main Authors: Venables, Hugh J., Clarke, Andrew, Meredith, Michael P.
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: English
• Published: Wiley 2013
• Subjects: Antarctic; Antarctic Peninsula; Marguerite; Marguerite Bay; The Antarctic; Antarc*; Sea ice
• Online Access: http://dx.doi.org/10.4319/lo.2013.58.3.1035; https://api.wiley.com/onlinelibrary/tdm/v1/articles/10.4319%2Flo.2013.58.3.1035; https://aslopubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/pdf/10.4319/lo.2013.58.3.1035

We report results collected year‐round since 1998 in northern Marguerite Bay, just inside the Antarctic Circle. The magnitude of the spring phytoplankton bloom is much reduced following winters with reduced sea‐ice cover. In years with little winter sea‐ice the exposed sea surface leads to deep mixe...