Sentences with phrase «measure ocean color»

With orbiting satellites that measure ocean color all beyond their shelf life, glum ocean scientists were left to hope that VIIRS could be fixed by 2013, in time for the launch of the next craft in the multi-satellite NPOESS series.

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Scientists have long used ocean color remote sensing to measure these particles in surface waters, and now, they will be able to reliably calculate concentrations of these particles through the water column.

Siegel says that ocean color, which indicates the presence of ocean life near the surface, was once thought to be too subtle a phenomenon to measure with the flawed sensor.

This is an important finding because current estimates of biological activity in surface waters of the ocean rely on instruments aboard satellites that measure the color of the sea surface, which changes along with levels of chlorophyll - a, an assessment that will miss blooms of other organisms, such as bacteria.

Also facing elimination are the Orbiting Carbon Observatory 3, which would observe carbon dioxide flows; a mission to the space station that would have supported tests of a spectrometer intended to measure solar reflection; and Plankton, Aerosol, Cloud, ocean Ecosystem, a satellite that would measure the colors of the ocean to gauge the global flow of algae and the influence of ocean aerosols on cloud formation.

For his site - specific project East Meets West, Finch traveled to the Atlantic and Pacific coasts, where he used a colorimeter — a device that measures the average color and temperature of light that exists naturally in a specific place and time — to calculate the color of the light on the oceans.

Changes in ocean color — a measure of phytoplankton mass — detected from space allowed researchers to calculate their photosynthetic rates and correlate these changes to the climate.

Ocean - color - sensing satellites measuring productivity are the primary source of phytoplankton information.