JISAO data

SeaWifs aerosol and chlorophyll



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Local correlation between 5-day averages of aerosol and the tendency chlorophyll anomalies. The aerosol and chlorophyll signals are cross-contaminated in SeaWiFS, and the tendency filter removes the cross-contaminated part. Each grid box is 2.5-degrees latitude-longitude.


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For the annual mean I required all calendar months to conbtibute.

Maps of the annual mean, monthly climatologies, and selected differences (PDF)




March and October climatological chlorophyll

July 1998 chlorophyll (dramatic end of 1997-98 warm ENSO)




The following analyses are based on September 1997 to February 2002 data. The climatology is for 1998-2001.

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Interannual variability
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http://daac.gsfc.nasa.gov/data/dataset/SEAWIFS/01_Data_Products/03_Gridded/03_L3_Monthly/index.html is the URL for "standard mapped images," which might be the version of the data that we really want. We shall see.



September 2004
Todd Mitchell (mitchell@atmos.washington.edu)
JISAO data publications