At the rainbow's end: high productivity fueled by winter upwelling along an Arctic shelf

• Published in: Polar Biology
• Main Authors: Falk-Petersen, Stig, Pavlov, Vladimir, Berge, Jorgen, Cottier, Finlo, Kovacs, Kit M., Lydersen, Christian
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: English
• Published: 2015
• Subjects: Arctic hotspot; Arctic sea ice; Arctic shelf break; Balaena mysticetus; Bowhead whales; Calanus spp.; Climate change; Ekman transport; 7ref2021; Arctic; Svalbard; Barents Sea; Midwinter; Polar Biology; polar night; Sea ice; Spitsbergen
• Online Access: https://pure.uhi.ac.uk/en/publications/9612ff5a-b7f3-4787-a22f-1663847fbcc6; https://doi.org/10.1007/s00300-014-1482-1; https://pureadmin.uhi.ac.uk/ws/files/1852157/falk_petersen_polbio_2015.pdf

Herein we document findings from a unique scientific expedition north of Svalbard in the middle of the polar night in January 2012, where we observed an ice edge north of 82°N coupled with pronounced upwelling. The area north of Svalbard has probably been ice-covered during winter in the period from...