Are the world's oceans optically different?
Journal: Journal of Geophysical Research Atmospheres
Year: 2011

Regional differences in the Sea‐viewing Wide Field‐of‐view Sensor chlorophyll algorithm uncertainty were observed in a large global data set containing coincident in situ measurements of chlorophyll a concentration ( Chla ) and spectral radiometry. The uncertainty was found to be systematic when the data were sorted by ocean: Atlantic, Pacific, Southern, and Indian Oceans. Artifacts associated with different instrumentation and analytical methods had been previously ruled out. Given these oceani