Collaborative Research: Contrasting Under-Ice and Open-Water Phytoplankton Blooms in the Chukchi Sea, Arctic, 2014

• Main Authors: Perovich, Donald, Arrigo, Kevin, Pickart, Robert
• Format: Dataset
• Language: English
• Published: NSF Arctic Data Center 2016
• Subjects: Arctic Ocean; Sea Ice; Phytoplankton; Mooring; Stanford; Arctic; Chukchi Sea; Chukchi Shelf; Chukchi; Cold Regions Research and Engineering Laboratory; Collaborative Research: Contrasting Under-Ice and Open-Water Phytoplankton Blooms in the Chukchi Sea; Sea ice
• Online Access: https://dx.doi.org/10.18739/a2n58cm5v; https://arcticdata.io/catalog/view/doi:10.18739/A2N58CM5V

Over the last several decades, Arctic Ocean ice cover has become substantially thinner and more prone to melting, extending the period of open water. Associated with the loss of sea ice has been an increase in light penetration and a dramatic rise in the productivity of phytoplankton. The PIs'...