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Science 14 October 1994:
Vol. 266. no. 5183, pp. 261 - 263
DOI: 10.1126/science.266.5183.261
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Spring Phytoplankton Production in the Western Ross Sea

Kevin R. Arrigo 1 and Charles R. McClain 1

1 National Aeronautics and Space Administration, Goddard Space Flight Center, Greenbelt, MD 20771, USA.

Coastal zone color scanner (CZCS) imagery of the western Ross Sea revealed the Presence of an intense phytoplankton bloom covering >106,000 square kilometers in early December 1978. This bloom developed inside the Ross Sea polynya, within 2 weeks of initial polynya formation in late November. Primary productivity calculated from December imagery (3.9 grams of carbon per square meter per day) was up to four times the values measured during in situ studies in mid-January to February 1979. Inclusion of this early season production yields a spring-to-summer estimate of 141 to 171 grams of carbon per square meter, three to four times the values previously reported for the western Ross Sea.

Submitted on April 11, 1994
Accepted on July 14, 1994


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