Variability in spring phytoplankton blooms associated with ice retreat timing in the Pacific Arctic from 2003–2019

• Hisatomo Waga ,

  Roles Conceptualization, Formal analysis, Funding acquisition, Methodology, Visualization, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  * E-mail: hwaga@alaska.edu

  Affiliations International Arctic Research Center, University of Alaska Fairbanks, Fairbanks, Alaska, United States of America, Arctic Research Center, Hokkaido University, Sapporo, Hokkaido, Japan

  https://orcid.org/0000-0002-2964-2950

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• Hajo Eicken,

  Roles Methodology, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation International Arctic Research Center, University of Alaska Fairbanks, Fairbanks, Alaska, United States of America

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• Toru Hirawake,

  Roles Funding acquisition, Writing – review & editing

  Current address: National Institute of Polar Research, Tachikawa, Tokyo, Japan

  Affiliation Faculty of Fisheries Sciences, Hokkaido University, Hakodate, Hokkaido, Japan

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• Yasushi Fukamachi

  Roles Funding acquisition, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Arctic Research Center, Hokkaido University, Sapporo, Hokkaido, Japan

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