Marine Science Faculty Publications
A Comparison of Ship and Coastal Zone Color Scanner Mapped Distribution of Phytoplankton in the Southeastern Bering Sea
Document Type
Article
Publication Date
1990
Abstract
We examined 21 Coastal Zone Color Scanner (CZCS) images of the southeastern Bering Sea to map the near-surface distribution of phytoplankton during 1979 and 1980 and compared this information with the mesoscale (100-1000 km) distribution of phytoplankton inferred from ship sampling. Pigment patches coherent over length scales of about 1000 km along isobaths were detected in the satellite data. The patches straddled boundaries of hydrographic domains that were previously defined from the ship observations. Smaller patches (order of 100 km diameter and less) were common. -from Authors
Citation / Publisher Attribution
Journal of Geophysical Research, v. 95, issue C7, p. 11483-11499
Scholar Commons Citation
Muller-Karger, Frank E.; McClain, C. R.; Sambrotto, R. N.; and Ray, G. C., "A Comparison of Ship and Coastal Zone Color Scanner Mapped Distribution of Phytoplankton in the Southeastern Bering Sea" (1990). Marine Science Faculty Publications. 1200.
https://digitalcommons.usf.edu/msc_facpub/1200
