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Milky Blue Water Near Prince of Wales Island

Warmer waters likely enabled a phytoplankton bloom to occur much later in the year than normal off the coast of Alaska and British Columbia.

This image originally appeared in the NASA Earth Observatory story Milky Blue Water Near Prince of Wales Island.

NASA Earth Observatory images by Joshua Stevens, using MODIS data from LANCE/EOSDIS Rapid Response, sea surface temperature data from Coral Reef Watch, and modified Copernicus Sentinel data (2018) processed by the European Space Agency. Story by Kasha Patel.

Published August 6, 2018
Data acquired July 20 - 21, 2018

Sources:: MTSAT; Meteosat; Sentinel-2; Suomi NPP > VIIRS; Terra > MODIS