Are the world's oceans optically different?

Journal of Geophysical Research: Oceans

Volumn 116, Issue 10, 2011, Pages

  Szeto, M ^a   Werdell, P J ^b   Moore, T S ^a   Campbell, J W ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NEW HAMPSHIRE   (United States)

^b NASA GODDARD SPACE FLIGHT CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALGAE CONTROL; ALGORITHMS; ANALYTICAL GEOCHEMISTRY; CHLOROPHYLL; PHYTOPLANKTON; RADIOMETRY; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; UNCERTAINTY ANALYSIS;

ABSORPTION MEASUREMENTS; ANALYTICAL METHOD; BIOGEOCHEMICAL PROCESS; CELL SIZE; CHLOROPHYLL-A CONCENTRATION; DATA SETS; GLOBAL DATA; IN-SITU MEASUREMENT; INDIAN OCEAN; PHYTOPLANKTON COMMUNITY; RADIOMETRIC MEASUREMENTS; SEA-VIEWING WIDE FIELD-OF-VIEW SENSORS; SPATIAL COVERAGE; SPECTRAL RADIOMETRY; STEPWISE LINEAR REGRESSION;

OCEANOGRAPHY;

ABSORPTION; ALGORITHM; CHLOROPHYLL; CHLOROPHYLL A; COMMUNITY STRUCTURE; CONCENTRATION (COMPOSITION); DATA SET; DETRITUS; GLOBAL OCEAN; HYPOTHESIS TESTING; IN SITU MEASUREMENT; INSTRUMENTATION; OPTICAL PROPERTY; PHYTOPLANKTON; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; SPATIAL VARIATION; UNCERTAINTY ANALYSIS;

ATLANTIC OCEAN; INDIAN OCEAN; PACIFIC OCEAN; SOUTHERN OCEAN;

EID: 80053603654     PISSN: None     EISSN: 21699291     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2011JC007230     Document Type: Article

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