A comparison of ship and Coastal Zone Color Scanner mapped distribution of phytoplankton in the southeastern Bering Sea

• Main Authors: Mcclain, C. R., Sambrotto, R. N., Ray, G. C., Muller-Karger, F. E.
• Format: Other/Unknown Material
• Language: unknown
• Published: 1990
• Subjects: 48; Bering Sea; Bering Shelf
• Online Access: http://ntrs.nasa.gov/search.jsp?R=19900055332

Twenty-one Coastal Zone Color Scanner (CZCS) images of the southeastern Bering Sea are examined in order to map the near-surface distribution of phytoplankton during 1979 and 1980. The information is compared with the mesoscale (100-1000 km) distribution of phytoplankton inferred from pooled ship sa...