• Introduction
• Chlorophyll Imagery
• Publications
• Presentations / Posters

AMT Satellite Ocean Colour Imagery:

The Atlantic Meridional Transect (AMT) programme is a NERC funded consortium grant, which will analyse annual and longer term variability in ocean ecology and biogeochemistry within the context of climate change. Six transects of the Atlantic Ocean will be undertaken between 2002 and 2005 to determine the structure and functioning of planktonic ecosystems in relation to physical and atmospheric processes that affect, directly or indirectly, the ocean carbon cycle. A range of new technologies will be applied to the measurement of key biological processes that control the formation and fate of organic matter. The list has been setup to facilitate communication being the AMT consortium and the wider community.  Details of the full AMT programme are available at www.pml.ac.uk/amt/.

The SeaWiFS imagery provided here is only available for research and education and you should also be SeaWiFS Authorised.

We would like to thank the SeaWiFS Project (Code 970.2) and the Goddard Earth Sciences Data and Information Services Center/Distributed Active Archive Center (Code 902) at the Goddard Space Flight Center, Greenbelt, MD 20771, for the production and distribution of these data, respectively. These activities are sponsored by NASA's Earth Science Enterprise. 

SeaWiFS Chlorophyll Imagery

Level 3 SeaWiFS OC4v4 chlorophyll images extracted from Level3 global products.  If you click on the image you will see the full sized version.   Below is also the chlorophyll colour palette with concentrations given in mg m^-3.

Remote Sensing Related Publications

• Drain, S. 2003. The Remote Sensing of Biomass. MRes Geomatics, University of Plymouth. [PDF Abstract].
• Barlow, R.G., Aiken, J., Sessions, H.E., Lavender, S. and Mantel, J. 2001. Phytoplankton pigment, absorption, and ocean colour characteristics in the southern Benguela ecosystem. South African Journal of Science, 97, pp 230-238.

Remote Sensing Conference Presentations/Posters

• Lowe, C., Lavender, S., Moore, G. and Aiken, J. 2004. Marine optics in the AMT programme. Challenger Conference for Marine Science, Liverpool, September (Poster Presentation).
• Lowe, C.D., Lavender, S.J., Aiken, J., Moore, G.F. 2004. Large scale patterns in bio-optical properties in the Atlantic Ocean. ASLO/TOS 2004 Ocean Research Conference, Hawaii, February (Abstract and Oral Presentation).
• Lowe, C. 2003. Satellite Remote Sensing and Biogeochemical Provinces in the Atlantic Ocean. International Summer School on Surface Ocean-Lower Atmosphere Study, Corsica, June/July (Poster).
• Lowe, C., Lavender, S. and Aiken, J. 2003. Determination of biogeochemical provinces in the Atlantic Ocean. EGS - AGU - EUG Joint Assembly 2003, Nice, April (Poster and Abstract).

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