Satellite remote sensing of primary production in the Bering Sea

• Main Author: Anugerahanti, P.
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: English
• Published: University of Plymouth 2014
• Subjects: Bering Sea; satellite remote sensing; sea-ice loss; Arctic; Pacific; Sea ice; Alaska
• Online Access: http://hdl.handle.net/10026.1/14075

The Bering Sea covers over 2 million square kilometres of the northernmost region of the Pacific Ocean (NPO, 2008), and is considered to be one of the most productive seas in the world (Walsh et al., 1989). Linking the Pacific and Arctic Oceans, the Bering Sea is almost entirely surrounded by the landmasses of Alaska and Russia. A steep continental slope divides this sea between the expansive continental shelf (<200 m depth) on its eastern waters and the deep basin (>2000 m depth) to the west (Brown et al., 2011).