Bio-optical properties of the different water masses in the Gulf of St. Lawrence

Description

The St. Lawrence ecosystem is a complex environment influenced by a variety of physical forces (runoff, winds, tides, bathymetry) that sustains a diverse food web going from phytoplankton to whales. Chlorophyll concentration is thus an important variable to measure at the scale of the ecosystem. Because of its large size, remote sensing is the only available tool to measure chlorophyll distribution in the St. Lawrence using ocean color imagery. To fully utilize this type of data, it is however important to have a sound knowledge of the bio-optical properties of the different water masses in the system. A St. Lawrence SeaWiFS program was thus built to gather this knowledge beginning in 1997.

Resources

Name Format Description Link
21 Search results for publications that cite this dataset by its DOI. https://scholar.google.com/scholar?q=10.5067%2FSeaBASS%2FOPTIQUE_ST_LAURENT%2FDATA001
21 Detailed information about the SeaBASS Experiment such as cruises, funding, and investigators https://seabass.gsfc.nasa.gov/experiment/Optique_St_Laurent/

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  • salinity-density
  • oceans
  • ocean-temperature
  • ocean-optics
  • ocean-chemistry
  • earth-science

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