After the successful Coastal Zone Color Scanner (CZCS, 1978–1986) demonstration that
quantitative estimations of geophysical variables such as chlorophyll a and diffuse attenuation …

Contributing roughly half of the biosphere’s net primary production (NPP) 1 , 2 , photosynthesis
by oceanic phytoplankton is a vital link in the cycling of carbon between living and …

The Sea-viewing Wide Field-of-view Sensor (SeaWiFS) Project Office was formally initiated
at the NASA Goddard Space Flight Center in 1990. Seven years later, the sensor was …

The subtropical gyres of the world are extensive, coherent regions that occupy about 40% of
the surface of the earth. Once thought to be homogeneous and static habitats, there is …

This chapter describes the revisions (version 4) to the ocean chlorophyll two-and four-band
algorithms as well as the very large in situ data set used to update these algorithms for use in …

The Sea-viewing Wide Field-of-view Sensor (SeaWiFS) provides global monthly measurements
of both oceanic phytoplankton chlorophyll biomass and light harvesting by land plants. …

The Ocean plays a central role in Earth’s climate and has absorbed 93% of the extra energy
from the enhanced greenhouse effect and approximately 30% of anthropogenic carbon …

The Amazon is the largest river system in the world, contributing about 6 × 10 12 m 3 of fresh
water to the tropical Atlantic each year 1,2 . This is about 16% of the annual discharge into …

The Coastal Zone Color Scanner (CZCS) data set provided some insights into biological
processes in the equatorial Pacific, but the sampling was too sparse to address questions on …

The retrieval of ocean color radiometry from space-based sensors requires on-orbit
vicarious calibration to achieve the level of accuracy desired for quantitative oceanographic …