Advection of Mesozooplankton Into the Northern Svalbard Shelf Region

• Published in: Frontiers in Marine Science
• Main Authors: Wassmann, Paul, Slagstad, Dag, Ellingsen, Ingrid H.
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: English
• Published: 2019
• Subjects: Arctic Ocean; zooplankton; Calanus finmarchicus; advection; contiguous domains; harvestable production; Arctic; Svalbard; Norwegian Sea; Lofoten; Vesterålen; Calanus glacialis; Fram Strait; Zooplankton
• Online Access: http://hdl.handle.net/11250/2616479; https://doi.org/10.3389/fmars.2019.00458

The northern Svalbard shelf region is part of the Atlantic advective contiguous domain along which nutrients, phyto- and mesozooplankton are advected with Atlantic Water from the Norwegian Sea along the Norwegian shelf break and into the Arctic Ocean. By applying the SINMOD model, we investigated ho...