Publication Date:
1980-10-03
Description:
The Coastal Zone Color Scanner (CZCS) on Nimbus-7, launched in October 1978, is the only sensor in orbit that is specifically designed to study living marine resources. The initial imagery confirms that CZCS data can be processed to a level that reveals subtle variations in the concentration of phytoplankton pigments. This development has potential applications for the study of large-scale patchiness in phytoplankton distributions, the evolution of spring blooms, water mass boundaries, and mesoscale circulation patterns.〈br /〉〈span class="detail_caption"〉Notes: 〈/span〉Hovis, W A -- Clark, D K -- Anderson, F -- Austin, R W -- Wilson, W H -- Baker, E T -- Ball, D -- Gordon, H R -- Mueller, J L -- El-Sayed, S Z -- Sturm, B -- Wrigley, R C -- Yentsch, C S -- New York, N.Y. -- Science. 1980 Oct 3;210(4465):60-3.〈br /〉〈span class="detail_caption"〉Record origin:〈/span〉 〈a href="http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/17751151" target="_blank"〉PubMed〈/a〉
Print ISSN:
0036-8075
Electronic ISSN:
1095-9203
Topics:
Biology
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Chemistry and Pharmacology
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Computer Science
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Medicine
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Natural Sciences in General
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Physics
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