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GEOPHYSICAL RESEARCH LETTERS
Volume 36, Issue -, Pages -Publisher
AMER GEOPHYSICAL UNION
DOI: 10.1029/2009GL038837
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- Canadian IPY Federal program office [IPY-CFL 2008]
- Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council
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The Canadian Beaufort Sea has been categorized as an oligotrophic system with the potential for enhanced production due to a nutrient-rich intermediate layer of Pacific-origin waters. Using under-ice hydrographic data collected near the ice-edge of a shallow Arctic bay, we documented an ice-edge upwelling event that brought nutrient-rich waters to the surface during June 2008. The event resulted in a 3-week long phytoplankton bloom that produced an estimated 31 g C m(-2) of new production. This value was approximately twice that of previous estimates for annual production in the region, demonstrating the importance of ice-edge upwelling to the local marine ecosystem. Under-ice primary production estimates of up to 0.31 g C m(-2) d(-1) showed that this production was not negligible, contributing up to 22% of the daily averaged production of the ice-edge bloom. It is suggested that under-ice blooms are a widespread yet under-documented phenomenon in polar regions, which could increase in importance with the Arctic's thinning ice cover and subsequent increase in transmitted irradiance to the under-ice environment. Citation: Mundy, C. J., et al. (2009), Contribution of under-ice primary production to an ice-edge upwelling phytoplankton bloom in the Canadian Beaufort Sea, Geophys. Res. Lett., 36, L17601, doi:10.1029/2009GL038837.
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