ESA-MERIS 10-Year Mission Reveals Contrasting Phytoplankton Bloom Dynamics in Two Tropical Regions of Northern Australia
Abstract
:1. Introduction
2. Data and Methods
2.1. Ocean Color Dataset and Algorithms
2.2. Regional Characteristics
2.3. Statistics
3. Results
3.1. Data Availability and Chl Variability in the Study Regions
3.2. Cluster Analysis
3.3. Time-Series
3.4. Hovmöller Diagrams
4. Discussion
4.1. Spatio-Temporal Phytoplankton Dynamics in the GBR Wet Tropics
4.2. Spatio-Temporal Phytoplankton Dynamics in the Van Diemen Gulf
5. Conclusions
Acknowledgments
Author Contributions
Conflicts of Interest
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Blondeau-Patissier, D.; Schroeder, T.; Brando, V.E.; Maier, S.W.; Dekker, A.G.; Phinn, S. ESA-MERIS 10-Year Mission Reveals Contrasting Phytoplankton Bloom Dynamics in Two Tropical Regions of Northern Australia. Remote Sens. 2014, 6, 2963-2988. https://doi.org/10.3390/rs6042963
Blondeau-Patissier D, Schroeder T, Brando VE, Maier SW, Dekker AG, Phinn S. ESA-MERIS 10-Year Mission Reveals Contrasting Phytoplankton Bloom Dynamics in Two Tropical Regions of Northern Australia. Remote Sensing. 2014; 6(4):2963-2988. https://doi.org/10.3390/rs6042963
Chicago/Turabian StyleBlondeau-Patissier, David, Thomas Schroeder, Vittorio E. Brando, Stefan W. Maier, Arnold G. Dekker, and Stuart Phinn. 2014. "ESA-MERIS 10-Year Mission Reveals Contrasting Phytoplankton Bloom Dynamics in Two Tropical Regions of Northern Australia" Remote Sensing 6, no. 4: 2963-2988. https://doi.org/10.3390/rs6042963