Putting Together the Big Picture: Remote-Sensing Observations of Ocean Color

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Authors

James A. Yoder | National Science Foundation, Arlington, Virginia, USA

J. Keith Moore | National Center for Atmospheric Research, Boulder, Colorado, USA

Robert N. Swift | EG&G Technical Services, Inc., Wallops Island, Virginia, USA

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First Paragraph

Observations of ocean color from space have been part of the U.S. JGOFS strategy for discerning temporal and spatial variations in upper-ocean productivity on the global scale since the first planning workshops for a U.S. global ocean flux program (National Academy of Sciences, 1984). From the start, remote measurements of near-surface chlorophyll a concentrations were envisaged as the major tool for extrapolating upper-ocean chemical and biological measurements in time and space and linking calculations of new and primary production with the flux of particulate material through the water column.

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Citation

Yoder, J.A., J.K. Moore, and R.N. Swift. 2001. Putting together the big picture: Remote-sensing observations of ocean color. Oceanography 14(4):33–40, http://dx.doi.org/10.5670/oceanog.2001.04.

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