How To Use Polynya In A Sentence
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One recent UAV mission in Antarctica examined a polar ocean feature called a polynya, which is an area of open ocean surrounded on all sides by either a coast, sea ice, or both.
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Because the Gulf of Anadyr "cold pool" is maintained by sea-ice production/brine formation in the St Lawrence Island polynya, an enhanced and more energetic polynya resulting from warming is likely to maintain a chemostat-type bloom system, allowing a longer growing season and higher levels of production.
Future change in processes and impacts on Arctic biota
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Annual development of the Great Siberian polynya influences spawning and growth rates of polar cod, the key prey species of the High Arctic ecosystem.
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The hydrography of the St. Lawrence Island polynya region and the Anadyr region is ultimately related to the northward transport of water through the Bering Strait.
Future change in processes and impacts on Arctic biota
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A polynya is a large area of open water surrounded by sea ice that is found in the same region year after year.
Arctic Ocean
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The Gulf of Anadyr "cold pool" is maintained by sea-ice production and brine formation in the St. Lawrence Island polynya.
Past variability in Arctic marine systems
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Beating back against the ocean current by tacking like a sailboat, GOE-3 made its way into the polynya to perform its mapping mission.
Research robots roam the Ross Sea
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Reprogrammed to deal with the unexpectedly strong current, the first seaglider also made its way from the whale breathing hole to the polynya region.
Research robots roam the Ross Sea
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Schledermann's pioneering work documenting the association between the location of present-day polynyas and 3000 years of human settlement in the High Arctic represented an important starting point.
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The biological oases are open waters, called polynyas, where blooming plankton support the local food chain.
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Sea-ice production in the source region in winter is enhanced within a polynya (the North Water) formed by the persistent southward drift of ice.
Marine Arctic
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Third: if the polynya was a freak occurence then you wouldn’t expect to see the Beaufort frozen over on July 25th every year. 2006 was just an accident.
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However, it is possible that an enhanced and more energetic polynya could result from warming.
Past variability in Arctic marine systems
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These forces move the ice to create open water, even in winter, in the form of linear cracks called leads and large areas of persistently open water called polynyas.
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In the St. Lawrence Island polynya region, changes in regional oceanography due to the position or size of the Gulf of Anadyr gyre are ultimately related to the northward transport of water through the Bering Strait, and to the geostrophic balance within the Arctic Ocean basin.
Past variability in Arctic marine systems
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The goal was to map water conditions in the Ross Sea "polynya," a region of open water surrounded by sea ice, where the plankton blooms every Antarctic summer.
Research robots roam the Ross Sea
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The length of the sea ice season can vary from a few days to year-round and generally decreases with distance from the continent, with the exception of coastal polynyas and the large and regular polynya off the Ross Ice Shelf.
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Surrounded by the Arctic Ocean, some polynyas (open areas in frozen seas) remain open all year round.
