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Water Clarity of Great Lakes

This SeaWiFS image shows four of the Great Lakes. Lake Michigan is beginning to exhibit a bloom of some sort similar to one that began last year at about this time. Lake Erie looks like the most eutrophic of the lakes.


Provided by the SeaWiFS Project, NASA/Goddard Space Flight Center, and ORBIMAGE

Published August 15, 1999
Data acquired August 15, 1999

Source:
OrbView-2 > SeaWiFS
Topics:
Biosphere > Microbiota > Phytoplankton
Biosphere > Vegetation > Phytoplankton
Human Dimensions > Environmental Impacts > Eutrophication
Collection:
Visible Earth