Water chemistry, and abundance and carbon biomass of under-ice fauna during POLARSTERN cruise ARK-XIX/1 to the Storfjord area in 2003

• Main Author: Werner, Iris
• Format: Other/Unknown Material
• Language: English
• Published: PANGAEA 2005
• Subjects: Priority Programme 1158 Antarctic Research with Comparable Investigations in Arctic Sea Ice Areas; SPP1158; Antarc*; Antarctic; Arctic; Barents Sea; Gammarus wilkitzkii; Polar Biology; Pseudocalanus minutus; Sea ice; Copepods
• Online Access: https://doi.pangaea.de/10.1594/PANGAEA.849171; https://doi.org/10.1594/PANGAEA.849171

The under-ice habitat and fauna were studied during a typical winter situation at three stations in the western Barents Sea. Dense pack ice (7-10/10) prevailed and ice thickness ranged over <0.1-1.6 m covered by <0.1-0.6 m of snow. Air temperatures ranged between -1.8 and -27.5°C. The ice unde...