Chlorophyll Traces Currents off Australia’s Northwest Coast - related image preview

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Chlorophyll Traces Currents off Australia’s Northwest Coast

The pigments in tiny phytoplankton provide a way to see which way water is flowing.


NASA Earth Observatory images by Jesse Allen, using Suomi NPP VIIRS data provided by Norman Kuring, NASA Ocean Color Group. Animation by Norman Kuring. Caption by Mike Carlowicz and Norman Kuring. Suomi NPP is a partnership between NASA, NOAA, and the Department of Defense.

Published October 3, 2014
Data acquired August 13 - 14, 2014

Source:
Suomi NPP > VIIRS