Sunlight absorption trend in oceans
Figure 1 - Example of a MATLAB result of trend extraction for Remote sensing Ocean Color (From 1998 to 2016) .
Color scale unit is in m-1
Sunlight absorption trend in oceans:
How it may impact earth’s surface energy fluxes
Researchers: Marilyne Poirier, Catherine Mulligan
Key highlights:
- Sea surface temperatures have been observed to increase across the globe
- Trend extraction of ocean color was conducted to analyze several parameters such as black carbon, chlorophyll, and erosion etc.
- Analysis include: extraction of turbulent fluxes trends, assess existing correlation and potential changes in optical properties of water that may result in different energy absorption mode, thus, different energy transfer rate in water mass bodies.
