Advection of Mesozooplankton Into the Northern Svalbard Shelf Region

• Published in: Frontiers in Marine Science
• Main Authors: Paul Wassmann, Dag Slagstad, Ingrid Ellingsen
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: English
• Published: Frontiers Media S.A. 2019
• Subjects: Arctic Ocean; zooplankton; Calanus finmarchicus; advection; contiguous domains; harvestable production; Science; Q; General. Including nature conservation; geographical distribution; QH1-199.5; Arctic; Svalbard; Norwegian Sea; Lofoten; Vesterålen; Calanus glacialis; Fram Strait; Zooplankton
• Online Access: https://doi.org/10.3389/fmars.2019.00458; https://doaj.org/article/c8295f8fa0a04183a4e346ed6224d362

The northern Svalbard shelf region is part of the Atlantic advective contiguous domain along which nutrients, phyto- and mesozooplankton are advected with Atlantic Water from the Norwegian Sea along the Norwegian shelf break and into the Arctic Ocean. By applying the SINMOD model, we investigated ho...