PAR measurements at Hansneset, Kongsfjorden, above and below kelp canopies from 2012 to 2013

• Main Authors: Bartsch, Inka, Paar, Martin, Fredriksen, Stein, Schwanitz, Max, Daniel, Claudia, Hop, Haakon, Wiencke, Christian
• Format: Dataset
• Language: English
• Published: PANGAEA 2022
• Subjects: Arctic Biodiversity & Livelihoods; Comment; DATE/TIME; DEPTH; water; FACE-IT; Kongsfjorden_Hansneset; Kongsfjorden; Spitsbergen; Arctic; Odyssey light loggers (Dataflow Systems; Christchurch; New Zealand); Odyssey Photosynthetic Irradiance Recording System; Data Flow Systems; New Zealand; PAR; Radiation; photosynthetically active; Arctic biodiversity; Kongsfjord*; Polar Biology
• Online Access: https://doi.pangaea.de/10.1594/PANGAEA.945341; https://doi.org/10.1594/PANGAEA.945341

Calibrated diurnal variation of irradiance in the PAR range (Ed(PAR,Z)) (10 min intervals) (in µmol/m²/s) measured at several depths above and below the kelp forest off Hansneset between 5 to 31 July 2012. The Odyssey loggers were mounted on each of four vertical racks which were fixed at the seafloor at 2.5, 5, 10 and 15 m depth MLW accompanying the study of Bartsch et al. (2016) (Polar Biology; doi:10.1007/s00300-015-1870-1). One logger was installed below the kelp canopy, approx. 20 cm (±10 cm) above the seafloor representing the “below canopy” situation, and another logger was mounted 90 cm (±10 cm) above the first logger, representing the “above canopy” situation. At 15 m depth, there was only one sensor above ground as this was below the kelp forest in the red algal zone. The loggers at the 10 and 15 m depths were left to run until June 2013 however, as the sensors were not cleaned in regular intervals from August 2012 onwards, absolute values have to be considered with care.