Remote-sensing reflectance and true colour produced by a coupled hydrodynamic, optical, sediment, biogeochemical model of the Great Barrier Reef, Australia: Comparison with satellite data

Environmental Modelling and Software

Volumn 78, Issue , 2016, Pages 79-96

  Baird, Mark E ^a   Cherukuru, Nagur ^a   Jones, Emlyn ^a   Margvelashvili, Nugzar ^a   Mongin, Mathieu ^a   Oubelkheir, Kadija ^a   Ralph, Peter J ^b   Rizwi, Farhan ^a   Robson, Barbara J ^a   Schroeder, Thomas ^a   Skerratt, Jennifer ^a   Steven, Andrew D L ^a   Wild Allen, Karen A ^a  

^a CSIRO   (Australia)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY SYDNEY   (Australia)

Author keywords

Chlorophyll; Ocean colour; Sediment; Tropical cyclone Yasi; Water clarity

Indexed keywords

BIOGEOCHEMISTRY; CHLOROPHYLL; COLOR; FLUID DYNAMICS; HURRICANES; HYDRODYNAMICS; REEFS; REFLECTION; SATELLITE IMAGERY; SEDIMENTS; STORMS; SUSPENDED SEDIMENTS;

BIOGEOCHEMICAL MODELING; BIOGEOCHEMICAL MODELS; OCEAN-COLOUR; PHYTOPLANKTON BIOMASS; REMOTE-SENSING REFLECTANCE; SUSPENDED SEDIMENT CONCENTRATIONS; TROPICAL CYCLONE; WATER CLARITY;

REMOTE SENSING;

BARRIER REEF; BENTHIC ENVIRONMENT; BIOGEOCHEMISTRY; CHLOROPHYLL; HYDRODYNAMICS; MODIS; OCEAN COLOR; OPTICAL METHOD; PHYTOPLANKTON; REFLECTANCE; REMOTE SENSING; SATELLITE DATA; SUSPENDED SEDIMENT; TROPICAL CYCLONE; TURBIDITY;

AUSTRALIA; CORAL SEA; GREAT BARRIER REEF; QUEENSLAND;

EID: 84953252112     PISSN: 13648152     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.envsoft.2015.11.025     Document Type: Article

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