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Regional Ocean-Colour Chlorophyll Algorithms For The Red Sea, Robert J.W. Brewin, Dionysios E. Raitsos, Giorgio Dall'olmo, Nikolaos Zarokanellos, Thomas Jackson, Marie Fanny Racault, Emmanuel S. Boss, Shubha Sathyendranath, Burt H. Jones, Ibrahim Hoteit

Marine Sciences Faculty Scholarship

The Red Sea is a semi-enclosed tropical marine ecosystem that stretches from the Gulf of Suez and Gulf of Aqaba in the north, to the Gulf of Aden in the south. Despite its ecological and economic importance, its biological environment is relatively unexplored. Satellite ocean-colour estimates of chlorophyll concentration (an index of phytoplankton biomass) offer an observational platform to monitor the health of the Red Sea. However, little is known about the optical properties of the region. In this paper, we investigate the optical properties of the Red Sea in the context of satellite ocean-colour estimates of chlorophyll concentration. Making …