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• Main Authors: George L. Hunt, Bering Sea
• Other Authors: The Pennsylvania State University CiteSeerX Archives
• Format: Text
• Language: English
• Published: 2003
• Subjects: Bering Sea; Sea ice; Alaska
• Online Access: http://citeseerx.ist.psu.edu/viewdoc/summary?doi=10.1.1.187.9851; http://www.pices.int/publications/special_publications/NPESR/2010/PICES_PUB4_Chp5_Bering%20Sea.pdf

[197] highlights The Bering Sea experienced four years with low sea ice cover and extraordinarily warm summers (2002-2005), followed by four years with some of the heaviest sea ice cover since the early 1970s and cold summers (2006-2009). During the warm period, integrated water column temperatures were elevated, bottom temperatures were higher, and the cold pool over the southeastern shelf was small and not as cold as in the cold period. During the cold period, integrated water column temperatures were anomalously low, bottom temperatures were below the long term mean, and the cold pool consisted of cold,-1.7 ºC water that extended across most of the Middle Shelf Domain with cool waters extending to Bristol Bay and the Alaska Peninsula. Water column stratification varied spatially, and was sometimes stronger in the warm years and sometimes stronger in the cold years, depending upon location. Net primary production and surface chlorophyll were positively affected by a