Transparency of Antarctic ice-covered lakes to solar UV radiation

• Main Authors: Warwick F. Vincent, Rowena Rae, Isabelle Laurion, John C. Priscu
• Other Authors: The Pennsylvania State University CiteSeerX Archives
• Format: Text
• Language: English
• Subjects: Antarctic; Four Lakes; Lake Vanda; McMurdo Dry Valleys; Vanda; Antarc*; polar desert; Tundra
• Online Access: http://citeseerx.ist.psu.edu/viewdoc/summary?doi=10.1.1.517.1247; http://www.aslo.org/lo/toc/vol_43/issue_4/0618.pdf

Depth profiles of solar ultraviolet radiation (UVR), photosynthetically available radiation (PAR), and related variables were measured beneath the thick, permanent ice cover of four lakes in the McMurdo Dry Valleys (77’S, 162”E). These lakes span a range of phytoplankton c centrations (0.1-10 pg Chl...