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Data description paper
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Underwater light environment in Arctic fjords
Robert W. Schlegel
CORRESPONDING AUTHOR
Laboratoire d'Océanographie de Villefranche, Sorbonne University, CNRS, Villefranche-sur-Mer, France
Rakesh Kumar Singh
Département de Biologie, Chimie et Géographie, Université du Québec à Rimouski, Rimouski, QC, Canada
Centre for Remote Imaging, Sensing and Processing (CRISP), National University of Singapore, Singapore
Bernard Gentili
Laboratoire d'Océanographie de Villefranche, Sorbonne University, CNRS, Villefranche-sur-Mer, France
Simon Bélanger
Département de Biologie, Chimie et Géographie, Université du Québec à Rimouski, Rimouski, QC, Canada
Laura Castro de la Guardia
Norwegian Polar Institute, Fram Centre, Tromsø, Norway
Dorte Krause-Jensen
Department of Ecoscience, Aarhus University, Aarhus C, Denmark
Cale A. Miller
Department of Earth Sciences, Utrecht University, Utrecht, the Netherlands
Mikael Sejr
Department of Ecoscience, Aarhus University, Aarhus C, Denmark
Arctic Research Centre, Aarhus University, Aarhus C, Denmark
Jean-Pierre Gattuso
CORRESPONDING AUTHOR
Laboratoire d'Océanographie de Villefranche, Sorbonne University, CNRS, Villefranche-sur-Mer, France
Institute for Sustainable Development and International Relations (IDDRI-Sciences Po), Paris, France
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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.
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