Temperature as indicator of optical properties and community structure of marine phytoplankton: implications for remote sensing

Using temperature as an independent variable, we were able to explain some 43 and 49% of the variance in the specific absorption coefficient of phytoplankton (a*()) at wavelengths () 443 and 676 nm, respectively, for some 1187 samples collected over a broad range of oceanographic regimes. Through ex... View More