Colorful Coastal Waters Signal Spring Phytoplankton Blooms Off the Mid-Atlantic
TL;DR
NASA's Earth Observatory used MODIS imagery to show vivid greens and turquoises off the Delaware–New Jersey–Virginia coast, where spring phytoplankton blooms—dominated by diatoms with coccolithophores mixed in—color the shallow Mid-Atlantic Bight; advances from the PACE mission are improving bloom detection in these optically complex coastal waters.
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