CTD data from the local environment of Arctic kelp populations on the west coast of Svalbard, Norway

• Main Authors: Niedzwiedz, Sarina, Voigt, Clara, Andersen, Sebastian, Diehl, Nora, Damsgård, Børge, Bischof, Kai
• Format: Dataset
• Language: English
• Published: PANGAEA
• Subjects: Antioxidative activity; Arctic Biodiversity & Livelihoods; C:N; CTD; Date/Time of event; DEPTH; water; Event label; FACE-IT; Latitude of event; Longitude of event; Multi-channel logger; RBR; RBRmaestro³; pigments; Salinity; SST; Station label; Svalbard; Svalbard_ctd_1; Svalbard_ctd_2; Svalbard_ctd_3; Svalbard_ctd_4; Svalbard_ctd_5; Svalbard_ctd_6; Svalbard_ctd_7; Temperature; Tolerances; Turbidity (Nephelometric turbidity unit); Underwater light climate; Arctic; Arctic biodiversity
• Online Access: https://doi.pangaea.de/10.1594/PANGAEA.968642

We assessed how Arctic kelp populations react to their local in situ environment in August 2022. Therefore, we sampled Saccharina latissima sporophytes from eight populations at several latitudes on the west coast of Svalbard, Norway, and correlated these results to the abiotic conditions they experienced. CTD profiles were run, using the downcast profile of an RBR Maestro3 (RBR Ltd., Ottawa, Canada). Temperature (°C), salinity (SA), and turbidity (NTU) of the water column were measured. The CTD was lowered at a speed of approx. 1 m/s. Data was smoothed by the mean for every meter interval.