Beyond Chlorophyll: Ocean color ESDRs and new products.
Stephane
Maritorena, ICESS/UCSB, stephane@icess.ucsb.edu
(Presenting)
Dave
A.
Siegel, ICESS/UCSB, davey@icess.ucsb.edu
Tihomir
Kostadinov, ICESS/UCSB, tiho@icess.ucsb.edu
Ocean color remote sensing is frequently viewed as a single product: Chlorophyll-a concentration. However, the normalized water-leaving radiance spectra measured from space contain information that allows the derivation of various other products such as spectral inherent optical properties. These products can now be validated through comparisons with in situ data as is done for chlorophyll-a and can serve as Earth Science Data Records (ESDR). New and innovative ocean color products (e.g. merged products, Net Primary Production, Phytoplankton Functional Types (PFT), Particle Size Distribution (PSD)) are also emerging and will provide important tools for ocean biogeochemistry research in the coming years.
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