Inorganic carbon and geochemistry measurements from landfast sea ice in Resolute Passage, Nunavut, Canada, as part of the Arctic-ICE project, May - June 2010

• Main Authors: Brown, Kristina Anne, Miller, Lisa Ann, Mundy, Christopher John, Papakyriakou, Tim N, Francois, Roger, Gosselin, Michel, Carnat, Gauthier, Swystun, Kyle, Tortell, Philippe Daniel
• Format: Dataset
• Language: English
• Published: PANGAEA 2010
• Subjects: Arctic-ICE; Arctic-ICE2010; Arctic - Ice-Covered Ecosystem in a Rapidly Changing Environment; ICE; Ice station; Resolute Passage; Nunavut; Arctic; Canada; Canadian Arctic Archipelago; Arctic Archipelago; Sea ice
• Online Access: https://doi.pangaea.de/10.1594/PANGAEA.845809; https://doi.org/10.1594/PANGAEA.845809

We conducted a six-week investigation of the sea ice inorganic carbon system during the winter-spring transition in the Canadian Arctic Archipelago. Samples for the determination of sea ice geochemistry were collected in conjunction with physical and biological parameters as part of the 2010 Arctic-ICE (Arctic - Ice-Covered Ecosystem in a Rapidly Changing Environment) program, a sea ice-based process study in Resolute Passage, Nunavut. The goal of Arctic-ICE was to determine the physical-biological processes controlling the timing of primary production in Arctic landfast sea ice and to better understand the influence of these processes on the drawdown and release of climatically active gases. The field study was conducted from 1 May to 21 June, 2010.