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Under-ice observations of water column temperature, salinity and spring phytoplankton dynamics: Eastern Bering Sea shelf

P. J. Stabeno,1 J. D. Schumacher,1 R. F. Davis2 and J. M. Napp3

1NOAA, Pacific Marine Environmental Laboratory, 7600 Sand Point Way NE, Seattle, Washington  98115
2Department of Oceanography, Dalhousie University, Nova Scotia, Canada
3NOAA, Alaska Fisheries Science Center, 7600 Sand Point Way NE, Seattle  98115

Journal of Marine Research, 56, 239–255, 1998.
This paper is not subject to U.S. copyright. Published in 1998 by the Journal of Marine Research

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