Quantifying the ocean's biological pump and its carbon cycle impacts on global scales

DA Siegel, T DeVries, I Cetinić… - Annual Review of …, 2023 - annualreviews.org
The biological pump transports organic matter, created by phytoplankton productivity in the
well-lit surface ocean, to the ocean's dark interior, where it is consumed by animals and …

Gross and net primary production in the global ocean: An ocean color remote sensing perspective

TK Westberry, GM Silsbe, MJ Behrenfeld - Earth-Science Reviews, 2023 - Elsevier
Phytoplankton photosynthesis and organic matter production fuel marine ecosystems and
provide the source material for trophic transfer and export to the ocean interior. Methods for …

Shipborne oceanic high-spectral-resolution lidar for accurate estimation of seawater depth-resolved optical properties

Y Zhou, Y Chen, H Zhao, C Jamet, D Dionisi… - Light: Science & …, 2022 - nature.com
Lidar techniques present a distinctive ability to resolve vertical structure of optical properties
within the upper water column at both day-and night-time. However, accuracy challenges …

[HTML][HTML] The Southern Ocean carbon and climate observations and modeling (SOCCOM) project: A review

JL Sarmiento, KS Johnson, LA Arteaga… - Progress in …, 2023 - Elsevier
Abstract The Southern Ocean serves as the primary gateway through which the
intermediate, deep, and bottom waters of the ocean interact with the surface ocean (and thus …

Retrieval of ocean optical and plankton properties with the satellite Cloud-Aerosol Lidar with Orthogonal Polarization (CALIOP) sensor: Background, data processing …

MJ Behrenfeld, Y Hu, KM Bisson, X Lu… - Remote Sensing of …, 2022 - Elsevier
Abstract Space-based light detection and ranging (lidar) instruments can provide important
measurements of ocean ecosystems that both complement passive ocean color …

Retrieving bbp and POC from CALIOP: A deep neural network approach

Z Zhang, P Chen, C Jamet, D Dionisi, Y Hu, X Lu… - Remote Sensing of …, 2023 - Elsevier
The CALIOP instrument has demonstrated tremendous potential in terms of oceanic
detection. Nighttime measurements from spaceborne lidar increase knowledge of the …

Evidence of phytoplankton blooms under Antarctic sea ice

C Horvat, K Bisson, S Seabrook, A Cristi… - Frontiers in Marine …, 2022 - frontiersin.org
Areas covered in compact sea ice have often been assumed to prohibit upper ocean
photosynthesis. Yet under-ice phytoplankton blooms (UIBs) have increasingly been …

Seasonal bias in global ocean color observations

KM Bisson, E Boss, PJ Werdell, A Ibrahim, R Frouin… - Applied …, 2021 - opg.optica.org
In this study, we identify a seasonal bias in the ocean color satellite-derived remote sensing
reflectances (R_rs (λ); sr^− 1) at the ocean color validation site, Marine Optical BuoY. The …

Satellite Lidar Measurements as a Critical New Global Ocean Climate Record

MJ Behrenfeld, L Lorenzoni, Y Hu, KM Bisson… - Remote Sensing, 2023 - mdpi.com
The year 2023 marked the tenth anniversary of the first published description of global
ocean plankton stocks based on measurements from a satellite lidar. Diverse studies have …

How are under ice phytoplankton related to sea ice in the Southern Ocean?

KM Bisson, BB Cael - Geophysical Research Letters, 2021 - Wiley Online Library
Little is known about Southern Ocean under‐ice phytoplankton, despite their suspected
potential—ice and stratification conditions permitting—to produce blooms. We use a …