Abstract
Satellite color imagery is currently the only data source that can be used to monitor long-term, global-scale changes in ocean biology. The ability to monitor ocean ecosystem processes is important not only because oceanic biological resources have direct value to mankind, but also because ocean biology plays a major role in the global carbon cycle (Siegenthaler and Sarmiento 1993). The effects of biological processes on seasonal and interannual changes in surface ocean pCO2 are very large and are extremely difficult to monitor with in situ measurements, since shipboard measurements can provide only limited coverage of the world ocean. In addition, long-term changes in ocean circulation may occur in response to greenhouse warming (Manabe and Stouffer 1993); and it is likely that such changes will have a significant impact on biological systems, and hence on the ocean-atmosphere CO2 balance (e.g., Sarmiento and Orr 1991).
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