Shelfbreak Upwelling in the Western Beaufort Sea, individual Conductivity-Temperature-Depth (CTD) cast data August-September 2017

• Main Author: Stephen Okkonen
• Format: Dataset
• Language: unknown
• Published: Arctic Data Center 2021
• Subjects: Ocean temperature; Salinity; Density; Depth; Chukchi Sea; Lowe; Beaufort Shelf; Kathleen; Beaufort Sea; Beluga; Beluga*; Chukchi; Copepods
• Online Access: https://doi.org/10.18739/A2RB6W357

Atmospherically-forced wind-induced upwelling along the shelf break leads to enhanced feeding opportunities for intermediate links in the pelagic ecosystem that in turn sustain the exploitation of this environment by animals such as beluga, seabirds, and seals. The Beaufort Sea shelf break is a hots...