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Polar merry-go-round

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The dynamics of polar marine ecosystems are poorly understood. A laser-based space-borne sensor captures annual cycles of phytoplankton biomass in seasonally ice-free polar waters, and provides clues on how growth drives these cycles.

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Figure 1: Icy surface ocean in the Arctic.

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  1. Marcel Babin is at the Takuvik Joint International Laboratory, CNRS & Université Laval, Quebec G1V 0A6, Canada,

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