Phytoplankton optical fingerprint libraries for development of phytoplankton ocean color satellite products.

ABSTRACT: Phytoplankton respond to physical and hydrographic forcing on time and space scales up to and including those relevant to climate change. Quantifying changes in phytoplankton communities over these scales is essential for predicting ocean food resources, occurrences of harmful algal blooms, and carbon and other elemental cycles, among other predictions. However, one of the best tools for quantifying phytoplankton communities across relevant time and space scales, ocean color sensors, is constrained by its own spectral capabilities and availability of adequately vetted and relevant optical models. To address this later shortcoming, greater than fifty strains of phytoplankton, from a range of taxonomic lineages, geographic locations, and time in culture, alone and in mixtures, were grown to

SUBMITTER: Lomas MW 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC11422499 | biostudies-literature | 2024 Feb

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature