Annual cycles of sea ice, wind and primary productivity in the Cape Bathurst and Saint Lawrence Island Polynyas, 1998-2015

• Main Author: Scott, Warren T.
• Format: Text
• Language: unknown
• Published: Clark Digital Commons 2017
• Subjects: Environmental science; Geographic information science and geodesy; Biology; Arctic; Cape Bathurst; Lawrence Island; Phytoplankton; Sea ice
• Online Access: https://commons.clarku.edu/geography_masters_papers/2; http://gateway.proquest.com/openurl?url_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info:ofi/fmt:kev:mtx:dissertation&res_dat=xri:pqm&rft_dat=xri:pqdiss:10617824

The Northern Hemisphere and the Arctic have experienced drastic increases in average surface temperature, with implications of this warming being realized in the Arctic marine ecosystem. In this study, sea ice variability, wind direction and magnitude, and sea surface temperature were examined to gl...