Zooplankton abundances from the Chukchi and Beaufort Seas near Point Barrow Alaska during August and September 2009

• Main Authors: Ashjian, Carin, Campbell, Robert, Okkonen, Stephen
• Format: Dataset
• Language: English
• Published: NSF Arctic Data Center 2021
• Subjects: zooplankton; marine; Arctic; Arctic Ocean; Barrow Canyon; Bering Sea; Bering Strait; Pacific; Barrow; Beaufort Sea; bowhead whale; Chukchi; Climate change; Pacific Arctic; Point Barrow; Zooplankton; Alaska
• Online Access: https://dx.doi.org/10.18739/a2wp9t76h; https://arcticdata.io/catalog/view/doi:10.18739/A2WP9T76H

The Arctic Ocean ecosystem may respond dramatically to climate change through 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 predict and understand...