Satellite survey of winter bloom of coccolithophores in the eastern Black Sea in the cold season of 2020/2021
Journal: Sovremennye problemy distantsionnogo zondirovaniya Zemli iz kosmosa
Year: 2021

This paper describes a rare winter bloom of coccolithophores in the eastern Black Sea, identified via satellite data. From the end of November 2020 to February 2021, signatures of coccolithophores bloom have been detected in the optical satellite data taken over the eastern Black Sea. These observations and the abnormal winter bloom of coccolithophores we revealed in 2019 indicate the need to revise the common belief that regular mass coccolithophores bloom in the Black Sea occurs in spring and