Underwater light environment in Arctic fjords

Schlegel, Robert W.; Singh, Rakesh Kumar; Gentili, Bernard; Bélanger, Simon; Castro de la Guardia, Laura; Krause-Jensen, Dorte; Miller, Cale A.; Sejr, Mikael; Gattuso, Jean-Pierre

doi:https://doi.org/10.5194/essd-16-2773-2024

Articles | Volume 16, issue 6

https://doi.org/10.5194/essd-16-2773-2024

© Author(s) 2024. This work is distributed under
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https://doi.org/10.5194/essd-16-2773-2024

© Author(s) 2024. This work is distributed under
the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 License.

Articles | Volume 16, issue 6

Data description paper

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14 Jun 2024

Data description paper |

| 14 Jun 2024

Underwater light environment in Arctic fjords

Robert W. Schlegel, Rakesh Kumar Singh, Bernard Gentili, Simon Bélanger, Laura Castro de la Guardia, Dorte Krause-Jensen, Cale A. Miller, Mikael Sejr, and Jean-Pierre Gattuso

Supplement

https://doi.org/10.5194/essd-16-2773-2024-supplement

Data sets

FjordLight: PAR data for Arctic fjords Bernard Gentili et al. https://doi.org/10.1594/PANGAEA.962895

Model code and software

FjordLight: addendum to PAR data for Arctic fjords Bernard Gentili et al. https://doi.org/10.1594/PANGAEA.965460

FjordLight: Available Light Within the Water Column and Seafloor of Arctic Fjords (0.7.0) Bernard Gentili et al. https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.10259129

Code used for an analysis of the FjordLight dataset (v1.0) R. Schlegel https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.11633656

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Fjords play a vital role in the Arctic ecosystems and human communities. It is therefore important to have as clear of an understanding of the processes within these systems as possible. While temperature and salinity tend to be well measured, light is usually not. The dataset described in this paper uses remotely sensed data from 2003 to 2022 to address this problem by providing high-spatial-resolution surface, water column, and seafloor light data for several well-studied Arctic fjords.