On the consistency of MODIS chlorophyll $a$ products in the northern South China Sea

Biogeosciences

Volumn 11, Issue 2, 2014, Pages 269-280

  Shang, S L ^a,b   Dong, Q ^b   Hu, C M ^c   Lin, G ^a   Li, Y H ^a   Shang, S P ^a,b  

^a BEIJING UNIVERSITY OF POSTS AND TELECOMMUNICATIONS   (China)

^b XIAMEN UNIVERSITY   (China)

^c UNIVERSITY OF SOUTH FLORIDA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHM; CHLOROPHYLL A; COASTAL ZONE; CONCENTRATION (COMPOSITION); DATA SET; ENVIRONMENTAL CHANGE; MODIS; SATELLITE IMAGERY; SPATIAL DISTRIBUTION;

CHINA; GUANGDONG; PACIFIC OCEAN; SOUTH CHINA SEA; ZHUJIANG;

EID: 84892993307     PISSN: 17264170     EISSN: 17264189     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.5194/bg-11-269-2014     Document Type: Article

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