A plankton guide to ocean physics: Colouring in the currents round South Africa and Madagascar
A plankton guide to ocean physics: Colouring in the currents round South Africa and Madagascar
The ocean colour sensor SeaWiFS, launched in August 1997, has been a great boon to those researching large-scale oceanic biological productivity. The sensor can detect variations in the colour of the water due to the presence of chlorophyll in phytoplankton, which essentially changes the water colour from blue to green. SeaWiFS has provided measurements of chlorophyll concentration over nearly all the world’s oceans, and because of their association with fronts, eddies and regions of upwelling, these records of phytoplankton abundance reveal much about physical processes occurring within the ocean.
Ocean colour, physical oceanography, eddies, fronts, Rossby waves, upwelling
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Quartly, Graham D.
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Srokosz, Meric A.
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1 October 2003
Quartly, Graham D.
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Srokosz, Meric A.
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Quartly, Graham D. and Srokosz, Meric A.
(2003)
A plankton guide to ocean physics: Colouring in the currents round South Africa and Madagascar.
Ocean Challenge, 12 (3), .
Abstract
The ocean colour sensor SeaWiFS, launched in August 1997, has been a great boon to those researching large-scale oceanic biological productivity. The sensor can detect variations in the colour of the water due to the presence of chlorophyll in phytoplankton, which essentially changes the water colour from blue to green. SeaWiFS has provided measurements of chlorophyll concentration over nearly all the world’s oceans, and because of their association with fronts, eddies and regions of upwelling, these records of phytoplankton abundance reveal much about physical processes occurring within the ocean.
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Published date: 1 October 2003
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Ocean colour, physical oceanography, eddies, fronts, Rossby waves, upwelling
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Graham D. Quartly
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Meric A. Srokosz
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