Marine Science Faculty Publications
Origin and Offshore Extent of Floating Algae in Olympic Sailing Area
Document Type
Article
Publication Date
8-2008
Digital Object Identifier (DOI)
https://doi.org/10.1029/2008EO330002
Abstract
Extensive patches of floating algae have appeared since mid-June in coastal waters off Qingdao, China, where the Olympic sailing competitions will be held on 9–23 August. By 27 June, field surveys showed that the patches occupied about 30%, or 15 square kilometers, of the 50-square-kilometer region designated for the competitions, posing potential problems for them, according to reports in local news media. The floating algae, whose spatial extent is the largest ever reported in the literature for the world's oceans (as revealed by satellite estimates indicated below), have attracted wide national and international attention since late June.
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Citation / Publisher Attribution
Eos Trans. AGU, v. 89, issue 33, p. 302-303
Scholar Commons Citation
Hu, Chuanmin and He, Ming-Xia, "Origin and Offshore Extent of Floating Algae in Olympic Sailing Area" (2008). Marine Science Faculty Publications. 1901.
https://digitalcommons.usf.edu/msc_facpub/1901
