Aerosol retrievals from multiple spaceborne sensors, including MODIS (on Terra and Aqua), MISR, OMI, POLDER, CALIOP, and SeaWiFS – altogether, a total of 11 different aerosol products – were comparatively analyzed using data collocated with ground-based aerosol observations from the Aerosol Robotic Network (AERONET) stations within the Multi-sensor Aerosol Products Sampling System (MAPSS, http:...

Ten years (1998–2007) of sea-level anomalies (SLA) frommultiple satellite altimeters and chlorophyll-a concentration from the Sea-viewing Wide Field-of-view Sensor (SeaWiFS) were used to detect eddy pumping/advection of nutrients by the action of propagating Rossby waves in the Kuroshio Extension (KE) region near 35N after the seasonal SeaWiFS chlorophyll-a (Chl-a) concentrations cycles and ann...

A methodology is presented for retrieving phytoplankton chlorophyll-a concentration from space. The data to be inverted, namely, vectors of top-of-atmosphere reflectance in the solar spectrum, are treated as explanatory variables conditioned by angular geometry. This approach leads to a continuum of inverse problems, i.e., a collection of similar inverse problems continuously indexed by the ang...

We use satellite data from Sea-viewing Wide Field-of-view Sensor (SeaWiFS) to investigate distributions of particulate organic carbon (POC) concentration in surface waters of the north polar Atlantic Ocean during the spring–summer season (April through August) over a 6-year period from 1998 through 2003. By use of field data collected at sea, we developed regional relationships for the purpose ...

A new generation of ocean colour satellites is now operational, with frequent observation of the global ocean. This paper reviews the potential to estimate marine primary production from satellite images. The procedures involved in retrieving estimates of phytoplankton biomass, as pigment concentrations, are discussed. Algorithms are applied to SeaWiFS ocean colour data to indicate seasonal var...