Annual Observations of the Biological and Physical Marine Environment in the Chukchi and Nearshore Beaufort Seas near Barrow, AK

• Main Author: Carin Ashjian
• Format: Dataset
• Language: unknown
• Published: Arctic Data Center 2010
• Subjects: AON; Arctic; Arctic Ocean; Barrow Canyon; Bering Strait; Pacific; Barrow; Beaufort Sea; Chukchi; Climate change; Pacific Arctic; Zooplankton; Alaska
• Online Access: https://search.dataone.org/view/urn:uuid:bdc47ce5-6d00-43e1-8336-73721cebbad7

The Arctic Ocean ecosystem may respond dramatically to climate change through already observed modification of the physical environment (e.g., hydrography and ice cover). A better understanding of the coupled biological-physical ocean ecosystem, and its interannual variability, is necessary to predi...