Western Arctic primary productivity regulated by shelf-break warm eddies

• Published in: Journal of Oceanography
• Main Authors: Watanabe, Eiji, Kishi, Michio J., Ishida, Akio, Aita, Maki Noguchi
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: English
• Published: Oceanographic Society of Japan
• Subjects: Phytoplankton bloom; Eddy dynamics; Shelf-basin exchange; Pacific-origin water; Lower-trophic marine ecosystem model; 468; Arctic; Arctic Ocean; Barrow Canyon; Beaufort Shelf; Canada; Chukchi Shelf; Pacific; canada basin; Chukchi; Phytoplankton; Sea ice
• Online Access: http://hdl.handle.net/2115/53444; https://doi.org/10.1007/s10872-012-0128-6

The response of phytoplankton to the Beaufort shelf-break eddies in the western Arctic Ocean is examined using the eddy-resolving coupled sea ice–ocean model including a lower-trophic marine ecosystem formulation. The regional model driven by the reanalysis 2003 atmospheric forcing from March to Nov...