How studies of turbulence and algae disco help us to understand the productivity of a future Arctic Ocean
By Eva Leu, Akvaplan-niva
Climate warming happens about four faster in the Arctic than any other place on Earth and is about to transform the environment there profoundly. Sea ice thickness and cover in the Arctic Ocean is decreasing rapidly, leading to more light reaching the surface ocean, and potentially more wind-induced mixing of the upper water column, too – as shown by a recent publicati