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Science 3 October 1980:
Vol. 210. no. 4465, pp. 63 - 66
DOI: 10.1126/science.210.4465.63
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Phytoplankton Pigments from the Nimbus-7 Coastal Zone Color Scanner: Comparisons with Surface Measurements

HOWARD R. GORDON 1, DENNIS K. CLARK 2, JAMES L. MUELLER 3, and WARREN A. Hovis 4

1 Department of Physics, University of Miami, Coral Gables, Florida 33124
2 National Environmental Satellite Service, National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, Washington, D.C. 20233
3 Laboratory for Atmospheric Sciences, National Aeronautics and Space Administration, Goddard Space Flight Center, Greenbelt, Maryland 20771
4 National Environmental Satellite Service, National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration

The removal of atmospheric effects from Nimbus-7 Coastal Zone Color Scanner (CZCS) images reveals eddy-like ocean turbidity patterns not apparent in the original calibrated images. Comparisons of the phytoplankton pigment concentrations derived from the corrected CZCS radiances with surface measurements agree to within less than 0.5 log C, where C is the sum of the concentrations of chlorophyll a plus phaeopigments a (in milligrams per cubic meter).

Submitted on November 7, 1979
Revised on March 31, 1980


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