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 …

NASA's surface biology and geology designated observable: A perspective on surface imaging algorithms

K Cawse-Nicholson, PA Townsend, D Schimel… - Remote sensing of …, 2021 - Elsevier
Abstract The 2017–2027 National Academies' Decadal Survey, Thriving on Our Changing
Planet, recommended Surface Biology and Geology (SBG) as a “Designated Targeted …

[HTML][HTML] Ocean carbon from space: Current status and priorities for the next decade

RJW Brewin, S Sathyendranath, G Kulk, MH Rio… - Earth-science …, 2023 - Elsevier
The ocean plays a central role in modulating the Earth's carbon cycle. Monitoring how the
ocean carbon cycle is changing is fundamental to managing climate change. Satellite …

[HTML][HTML] Sensing the ocean biological carbon pump from space: A review of capabilities, concepts, research gaps and future developments

RJW Brewin, S Sathyendranath, T Platt, H Bouman… - Earth-Science …, 2021 - Elsevier
The element carbon plays a central role in climate and life on Earth. It is capable of moving
among the geosphere, cryosphere, atmosphere, biosphere and hydrosphere. This flow of …

A review of carbon monitoring in wet carbon systems using remote sensing

AD Campbell, T Fatoyinbo, SP Charles… - Environmental …, 2022 - iopscience.iop.org
Carbon monitoring is critical for the reporting and verification of carbon stocks and change.
Remote sensing is a tool increasingly used to estimate the spatial heterogeneity, extent and …

Remote sensing algorithms for particulate inorganic carbon (PIC) and the global cycle of PIC

WM Balch, C Mitchell - Earth-Science Reviews, 2023 - Elsevier
This paper begins with a review of the history of remote sensing algorithms for the
determination of particulate inorganic carbon (PIC; aka calcium carbonate), primarily …

Improving Satellite Global Chlorophyll a Data Products Through Algorithm Refinement and Data Recovery

C Hu, L Feng, Z Lee, BA Franz… - Journal of …, 2019 - Wiley Online Library
A recently developed algorithm to estimate surface ocean chlorophyll a concentrations (Chl
in mg m− 3), namely, the ocean color index (OCI) algorithm, has been adopted by the US …

Mapping particulate organic carbon in lakes across China using OLCI/Sentinel-3 imagery

D Liu, S Yu, H Wilson, K Shi, T Qi, W Luo, M Duan… - Water Research, 2024 - Elsevier
Remote sensing monitoring of particulate organic carbon (POC) concentration is essential
for understanding phytoplankton productivity, carbon storage, and water quality in global …

How many independent quantities can be extracted from ocean color?

BB Cael, K Bisson, E Boss… - Limnology and …, 2023 - Wiley Online Library
Products derived from remote sensing reflectances (R rs λ), for example, chlorophyll,
phytoplankton carbon, euphotic depth, or particle size, are widely used in oceanography …

Improving ocean color data coverage through machine learning

S Chen, C Hu, BB Barnes, Y Xie, G Lin, Z Qiu - Remote Sensing of …, 2019 - Elsevier
Oceanic chlorophyll-a concentration (Chl, mg m− 3) maps derived from satellite ocean color
measurements are the only data source which provides synoptic information of …