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Based on MODIS data, a significant decline in the intensity and spatial extension of blooms of coccolithophore E. huxleyi in Arctic waters in 2002–2010 is revealed and quantified. This 9-year tendency has been unfolding against a background of negative trends in the dynamics of SST and levels of incident PAR and summer-time NAO, which collectively, but with a predominance of the NAO influence, are believed to be the main drivers of the decline of E. huxleyi blooms and the associated decline in inorganic carbon production in the Arctic Basin.
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Original Russian Text © D.A. Petrenko, E.V. Zabolotsikh, D.V. Pozdnyakov, F. Counillon, L.N. Karlin, 2013, published in Issledovanie Zemli iz Kosmosa, 2013, No. 2, pp. 19–27.
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Petrenko, D.A., Zabolotsikh, E.V., Pozdnyakov, D.V. et al. Interannual variations and trend of the production of inorganic carbon by coccolithophores in the arctic in 2002–2010 based on satellite data. Izv. Atmos. Ocean. Phys. 49, 871–878 (2013). https://doi.org/10.1134/S0001433813090119
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