Sovremennye problemy distantsionnogo zondirovaniya Zemli iz kosmosa, 2010, Vol. 7, No. 1, pp. 238-247
Assessment of inter-annual and seasonal changes in sea surface temperature and chlorophyll concentration in the Atlantic Ocean
in 1998-2008 from satellite data
O.V. Kopelevich
, S.V. Sheberstov
P.P. Shirshov Institute of Oceanology Russian Academy of Sciences, 117997 Moscow,36 Nakhimovsky prospectr
Global inter-annual and seasonal changes in sea surface temperature (SST) and chlorophyll concentration (Chl) in the Atlantic Ocean in 1998-2008 are studied with satellite data from IR-radiometers and ocean color scanners. Their monthly spatial distributions are analyzed for region from 600S to 60oN; the monthly and annual means have been computed for different latitudinal zones as well as monthly areas occupied by different ranges of SST and Chl. It is demonstrated that the recorded changes of the SST and Chl values, derived from satellite data, can be resulted not only from real changes of SST and Chl but from losses of the data due to cloudiness, ice coverage and other reasons.
Keywords: Atlantic Ocean, satellite data, sea surface temperature, chlorophyll concentration, seasonal and inter-annual changes, cloudiness effect
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