The User will make available to the scientific community the results of SeaWiFS investigations through publication in appropriate journals or other established channels as soon as practicable and consistent with good scientific practice. If the reports or publications are copyrighted, NASA and OSC will have a royalty-free right under the copyright to reproduce, distribute, and use the copyrighted works for their purposes. OSC is a third-party beneficiary of this agreement. Accordingly, in the event of the breach or threatened breach of this agreement by the Individual SeaWiFS Data User, OSC is entitled to suspend or cancel the right to receive SeaWiFS data, and may exercise all other applicable legal remedies, including seeking injunctive relief. This agreement covers all data in the User's possession that are less than five years old.
Data become public domain five years after capture.
Commercial uses prohibited under this agreement involve the sale or resale of the SeaWiFS data and all SeaWiFS-derived data. An experiment to assess the impact of episodic events on the nearshore-offshore transport and transformation of biogeochemically important materials in the Great Lakes. A tight coupling between contaminated sediments and overlying water exists in lakes and coastal ecosystems through the process of sediment resuspension. Satellite observations of suspended sedimentary material in Lake Michigan provide a unique opportunity to investigate an apparently annually recurrent episode of nearshore-offshore transport which can frequently consist of a 10 km wide plume of resuspended material extending over 200 km along the southern shores of the lake. The plume appears to be initiated by a major late winter storm after the melting of surface ice, and it eventually veers offshore along the eastern shore of the lake, coincident with the area of highest measured sediment accumulation in the lake.