Remote sensing of coccolithophore blooms in selected oceanic regions using the PhytoDOAS method applied to hyper-spectral satellite data

Biogeosciences

Volumn 9, Issue 6, 2012, Pages 2127-2143

  Sadeghi, A ^a   Dinter, T ^a,b   Vountas, M ^a   Taylor, B ^b   Altenburg Soppa, M ^b   Bracher, A ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BREMEN   (Germany)

^b ALFRED WEGENER INSTITUTE FOR POLAR AND MARINE RESEARCH   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BIOMASS; CHLOROPHYLL; COCCOLITH; COLOR; GLOBAL OCEAN; PARTICULATE INORGANIC MATTER; PHYTOPLANKTON; REMOTE SENSING; SATELLITE DATA; SATELLITE SENSOR; SEA SURFACE TEMPERATURE; SPATIAL RESOLUTION; SPECTRAL ANALYSIS; TEMPORAL VARIATION;

EID: 84880533769     PISSN: 17264170     EISSN: 17264189     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.5194/bg-9-2127-2012     Document Type: Article

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