2015 Satellite Image (IMAGE)

University of California - San Diego

2015 Satellite Image

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This is the extent of the Pacific Northwest Pseudo-nitzschia bloom in 2015. Gradation of colors purple-blue-green-yellow-red-pink in ocean areas shows increasing chlorophyll concentration towards the coast. Satellite data courtesy of NASA Ocean Biology Processing Group and LAADS-DAAC.

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Mati Kahru, Scripps Institution of Oceanography at UC San Diego.

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