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Light scattering profiles and water samples for filtration of suspended particulate matter were obtained during fall, 1973, from Ice Island T-3, then located about 50 miles north of Ellesmere Island. The profiles reveal almost no variability in scattering, either in the water column, or in time during our two weeks of field work. Gravimetric analysis of the filtered suspended particulate matter shows that mass concentrations are low, averaging about 7Μg l−1, and that they too remain very constant. The four water masses present in the Arctic Ocean could not be distinguished by our observations of light scattering and mass concentration of suspended particulates.
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Pak, H., Peterson, R.E. & Zaneveld, J.R.V. Light scattering and suspended particulate matter in the Arctic Ocean north of Ellesmere Island. Journal of the Oceanographical Society of Japan 33, 131–136 (1977). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF02109684
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