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Patterns of Seasonal and Interannual Variability of Remotely Sensed Chlorophyll

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The Caspian Sea Environment

Part of the book series: The Handbook of Environmental Chemistry ((HEC5,volume 5P))

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Seasonal and interannual variability of chlorophyll dynamics in the Caspian Sea remotely sensed by the Sea-viewing Wide Field-of-view Sensor (SeaWiFS) radiometer was analyzed from the start of the SeaWiFS mission in 1997 till 2004. The chlorophyll concentration in the surface layer was especially high in the shallow northern Caspian Sea. Seasonal variability in all Caspian Sea regions except the Kara-Bogaz-Gol Bay was characterized by a seasonal maximum in August to September, related to the period of maximum sea surface temperature and wind stress. On an interannual scale, the variations of chlorophyll in the Caspian Sea were related to North Atlantic Oscillation Index, Volga discharge, sea surface temperature, and wind stress anomalies over different regions of the Caspian Sea.

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Acknowledgments

The author would like to thank the SeaWiFS project (code 970.2) and the DAAC (code 902) at the NASA GSFC for the production and distribution of remotely sensed images, respectively. These activities are sponsored by NASA's Mission to Planet Earth program. I also thank the NASA PODAAC at the JPL, California Institute of Technology, for SST data. I thank A.G. Kostianoy and S.A. Lebedev for cooperation and providing me with important information on recent observations in the Caspian Sea and S.N. Rodionov for critical discussion of the results.

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Nezlin, N.P. Patterns of Seasonal and Interannual Variability of Remotely Sensed Chlorophyll. In: Kostianoy, A.G., Kosarev, A.N. (eds) The Caspian Sea Environment. The Handbook of Environmental Chemistry, vol 5P. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg . https://doi.org/10.1007/698_5_007

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