Articles | Volume 12, issue 2
https://doi.org/10.5194/os-12-379-2016
https://doi.org/10.5194/os-12-379-2016
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08 Mar 2016
Research article |  | 08 Mar 2016

Remote sensing of chlorophyll in the Baltic Sea at basin scale from 1997 to 2012 using merged multi-sensor data

Jaime Pitarch, Gianluca Volpe, Simone Colella, Hajo Krasemann, and Rosalia Santoleri

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Several operational satellite chlorophyll a (CHL) in the Baltic Sea were tested at a regional scale. Comparison to an extensive in situ CHL dataset showed low linearity. Bias-corrected CHL annual cycles were computed. The Gulf of Bothnia displays a single CHL peak during spring. In Skagerrak and Kattegat, there is a small bloom in spring and a minimum in summer. In the central Baltic, CHL follows a dynamic of a mild spring bloom followed by a much stronger bloom in summer.