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Article Dans Une Revue Geophysical Research Letters Année : 2002

Is desert dust making oligotrophic waters greener?

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In situ optical measurements provide evidence that oligotrophic waters of the Mediterranean Sea have a greener color than would result from their phytoplankton content alone. This anomaly, detectable in low chlorophyll waters, remains unnoticed in the chlorophyll-rich waters of the nearby waters of the Moroccan upwelling zone. It is due to enhanced absorption in the blue and enhanced backscattering in the green parts of the visible spectrum likely resulting from the presence of submicron Saharan dust in suspension within the upper layer. This result implies that regional estimations of carbon fixation from ocean color images might be significantly overestimated, not only in the Mediterranean Sea, but also in other oligotrophic areas of the Northern hemisphere, subjected to desert dust deposition.
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hal-00702800 , version 1 (27-01-2021)

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Hervé Claustre, A. Morel, S.B. Hooker,, M. Babin, David Antoine, et al.. Is desert dust making oligotrophic waters greener?. Geophysical Research Letters, 2002, 29 (10), pp.107. ⟨10.1029/2001GL014056⟩. ⟨hal-00702800⟩
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