Productivity, chlorophyll a, Photosynthetically Active Radiation (PAR) and other phytoplankton data from the Arctic Ocean, Bering Sea, Chukchi Sea, Beaufort Sea, East Siberian Sea, Kara Sea, Barents Sea, and Arctic Archipelago measured between 17 April, 1954 and 30 May, 2006 compiled as part of the Arctic System Science Primary Production (ARCSS-PP) observational synthesis project (NCEI Accession 0063065)

Arctic Ocean primary production data were assembled from original input data archived in various international databases, provided by individual investigators or in publications. The data were collected by various methods and resulted from the efforts of many individual, national and international research efforts conducted between 1954 and 2007. Station data (cruise, station, latitude, longitude, depth), discrete data for productivity and chlorophyll a (value, method, phase, incubation type and length), photosynthetically available radiation (PAR) (incoming, integrated over incubation period), some integrated parameters, and some hydrographic parameters (nutrient concentration, mixed layer depth) as well as source (investigator, data base, publication, etc.), if available, were included.

北极海洋初级生产数据集系从多种国际数据库中归档的原始输入数据汇编而成，这些数据由个别研究者或出版物提供。数据采集采用了多种方法，并汇聚了众多个人、国家和国际研究项目在1954年至2007年期间的努力成果。数据集包含了站位数据（巡航、站位、纬度、经度、深度）、生产力及叶绿素a的离散数据（数值、方法、阶段、孵化类型及长度）、光合有效辐射（PAR）（入射辐射、孵化期间积分）、某些综合参数以及某些水文参数（营养物质浓度、混合层深度），如有可用，还包括了数据来源（研究者、数据库、出版物等）。