Comparison of global chlorophyll concentrations using MODIS data

Advances in Space Research

Volumn 43, Issue 7, 2009, Pages 1090-1100

  Dasgupta, Swarvanu ^a   Singh, Ramesh P ^b   Kafatos, Menas ^b  

^a GEORGE MASON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b CHAPMAN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Chlorophyll; Ocean; Remote sensing; Seawifs

Indexed keywords

OCEANOGRAPHY; PHYTOPLANKTON; RADIOMETERS; REMOTE SENSING;

CHLOROPHYLL CONCENTRATION; GLOBAL CARBON CYCLE; GLOBAL OCEAN; OCEAN; OCEAN COLOR SENSOR; SEASONAL DISTRIBUTIONS; SEAWIFS; TEMPORAL DYNAMICS;

CHLOROPHYLL;

EID: 61449130412     PISSN: 02731177     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.asr.2008.11.009     Document Type: Article

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