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Phytoplankton And Carbon Dynamics In The Estuarine-Coastal Waters Of The Northern Gulf Of Mexico From Field Data And Ocean Color Remote Sensing, Bingqing Liu Mar 2020

Phytoplankton And Carbon Dynamics In The Estuarine-Coastal Waters Of The Northern Gulf Of Mexico From Field Data And Ocean Color Remote Sensing, Bingqing Liu

LSU Doctoral Dissertations

In this study, phytoplankton community and carbon dynamics were examined in the optically complex estuarine-coastal regions of the northern Gulf of Mexico (nGOM) from field and satellite ocean color observations. As part of this study, bio-optical ocean color algorithms for i) dissolved organic carbon (DOC), ii) phytoplankton pigment composition, iii) adaptive estimation of Chl a and iv) phytoplankton size fractions were developed to facilitate the study of biogeochemical cycling in the nGOM.

The phytoplankton based algorithms were applied to Sentinel 3A/B-OLCI oean color data to assess phytoplankton community dynamics to extreme river discharge conditions as well as hurricanes in the …