Under Landfast Ice

• Published in: ARCTIC
• Main Author: Newbury, Thomas K.
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: English
• Published: The Arctic Institute of North America 1983
• Subjects: Algae; Breakup; Fast ice; Invertebrates; Marine ecology; Oceanography; Predation; Primary production (Biology); Sea ice ecology; Winter ecology; Wildlife habitat; Alaskan Beaufort Sea; Arctic; Mer de Beaufort; Arctique*; Beaufort Sea; Sea ice; Alaska
• Online Access: https://journalhosting.ucalgary.ca/index.php/arctic/article/view/65339

The layer of water under landfast ice has unique oceanographic characteristics, as described in this review of recent assessment information for the central Alaskan Beaufort Sea coast. Water circulation is very slow usually near the lower threshold of current meters. Barometric storms cause infreque...