10. Image Credits

6. Plankton Blooms

Chlorophyll concentrations as measured by the Sea-viewing Wide Field-of-view Sensor (SeaWiFS) satellite and the Moderate Resolution Imaging Spectroradiometer (MODIS) on NASA's Aqua satellite between March 21 and June 20, 2006.
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NASA, USA
URL: http://earthobservatory.nasa.gov/IOTD/view.php?id=6735
Last access: 06.10.2009
Assorted diatoms (phytoplankton) found living between crystals of annual sea ice overlying McMurdo Sound, Antarctica.
Photograph
NOAA At The Ends of the Earth Collection, USA. Image digitized from original 35mm Ektachrome slide (1983). Image ID: corp2365, Photographer: Prof. Gordon T. Taylor, Stony Brook University Photo Credit: NSF Polar Programs
URL: http://www.photolib.noaa.gov/htmls/corp2365.htm
Last access: 06.10.2009
Predicted phytoplankton response to increased temperature in ocean surface waters.
Graphic
Nature Reprinted by permission from Macmillan Publishers Ltd: Nature Oceanography: Plankton in a warmer world Scott C. Doney Nature 444, 695-696(7 December 2006) doi:10.1038/444695a, copyright 2006.
URL: http://www.nature.com/nature/journal/v444/n7120/fig_tab/444695a_F1.html
Last access: 06.10.2009

 

Average ocean chlorophyll concentration measured by SeaWiFS since launch in 1997 until early 2004
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NASA Visible Earth, USA
URL: http://visibleearth.nasa.gov/view_rec.php?id=16682
Last access: 06.10.2009
Chlorophyll June, September, December 2007, March 2008
Images
NASA , USA, Ocean Color Web
URL: http://oceancolor.gsfc.nasa.gov/ and then link to level 3 browser.
Last access: 06.10.2009
Chlorophyll June 2007 - June 2008
Animation
NASA , USA, Ocean Colour Web
URL: http://oceancolor.gsfc.nasa.gov/ and then link to level 3 browser for monthly images.
Last access: 06.10.2009