measurement site was located at a distance of approximately 15 km to the open sea in northerly direction, and 5 km to Atka bay in north-easterly direction. The Neumayer DOAS instrument has already been de- scribed [...] more than 1 ppm of iodine in meteorites and I/Cl ratios in snow samples 10–190 times higher than in sea water, but no or only small enrichment in chlorine and bromine. Rock samples showed a decrease of the [...] indicate that the presence of IO is a widespread phenomenon along the Antarctic coast and over the sea ice covered Antarctic ocean. The presence of iodine monoxide in the ppt range is ex- pected to have

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following conditions: (1) day-time with snow on the sea ice, (2) night-time with snow on the sea ice, (3) day-time with bare sea ice, and (4) night-time with bare sea ice. In the all groups (1-4), model runs were [...] formation process and (2) the varying contrast between sea ice and open water, depending on sea state and the sea ice roughness. Therefore, no sea ice standard algorithms exist for this sensor. The high [...] the Arctic sea ice observed on 16, 27, and 30 March, 1998, were modelled. The first one (16 March) represents a warm air advection over the sea ice, the second one (27 March) a flow over sea ice far from

Spectrometers for Atmospheric Chartography SEOM Scientific Exploitation of Operational Missions SeaWiFS Sea-viewing Wide Field-of-view Sensor SOM Self-Organizing Maps SoW Statement of Work TOA Top of atmosphere [...] Y., Bréon, F. 2005. Remote sensing of phytoplankton groups in case 1 waters from global SeaWiFS imagery. Deep-Sea Res. Part I, 52, 1989-2004. Alvain, S., Moulin, C., Dandonneau, Y., Loisel, H. 2008. Seasonal [...] M., Taupier-Letage, I. 1988. Size fraction of phytoplankton in the Ligurian Sea and the Algerian Basin (Mediterranean Sea): Size distribution versus total concentration. Mar. Microbial Food Webs, 3, 1–7

hux: PhytoDOAS coccos chl-a - SCIAMACHY total chl-a: GlobColour merged GSM MODIS, SeaWiFS, MERIS PIC - MODIS-Aqua SST: sea surface temperature, - AVHRR (http://nsidc.org/data/avhrr) wind : surface wind speed [...] Remote Sensing of Environment Summary Acknowledgements: We thank ESA, DLR, SQWG for SCIAMACHY, NASA for SeaWiFS, MODIS and NOBM, ESA for MERIS and merged GlobColour chl-a, AVHRR for SST, AMSR-E for wind and [...] with PhytoDOAS Global Biomass of Phytoplankton Groups Studying Coccolithophores‘ Times Series in the North Atlantic (Sadeghi et al. 2012b) Coccos DOAS fit-factors’ change with coccos (EMI) chl-a from 0.01

minimum and maximum excursion of the sea ice, the increase in phytoplankton biomass follows the retreat of sea ice. An important consequence of the melting of sea ice is the increase of the vertical s [...] in the sea ice cover have also been observed. Lefebvre et al. (2004) showed that during a positive SAM phase the Bellingshausen and Weddell Seas are influenced by warm northerly winds and the sea ice cover [...] m-3 for Sea- WiFS); for higher concentrations this difference increases to 0.4 mg m-3 (0.61 mg m-3 for MODIS and 0.21 mg m-3 for SeaWiFS). The observed underestimation of Chla by the operational Sea- WiFS

minimum and maximum excursion of the sea ice, the increase in phytoplankton biomass follows the retreat of sea ice. An important consequence of the melting of sea ice is the increase of the vertical s [...] in the sea ice cover have also been observed. Lefebvre et al. (2004) showed that during a positive SAM phase the Bellingshausen and Weddell Seas are influenced by warm northerly winds and the sea ice cover [...] m-3 for Sea- WiFS); for higher concentrations this difference increases to 0.4 mg m-3 (0.61 mg m-3 for MODIS and 0.21 mg m-3 for SeaWiFS). The observed underestimation of Chla by the operational Sea- WiFS

the wake of climate change is likely to produce radical changes in the marine habitats of the High North. This is indicated by data from long-term observations in the Fram Strait, which researchers from [...] to fundamentally impact the local symbiotic communities, from the water’s surface down to the deep seas. As the authors recently reported in the journal “Ecological Indicators”, that’s precisely what happened

first time that marine litter can even be found at the sea surface of Arctic waters. Though it remains unclear how the litter made it so far north, it is likely to pose new problems for local marine life

completely ice-free during summer and sea-surface temperature reached values of 4 to 9 degrees Celsius. In spring, autumn and winter, however, the ocean was covered by sea ice of variable extent, the scientists