Abstract
Oceanic new production can be estimated from remotely sensed data on ocean colour and temperature. This approach, which depends on parameterizations developed from ship observations, as well as on satellite data, yields more representative estimates of the large-scale average new production than those calculated from ship data alone.
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Sathyendranath, S., Platt, T., Horne, E. et al. Estimation of new production in the ocean by compound remote sensing. Nature 353, 129–133 (1991). https://doi.org/10.1038/353129a0
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