Planton | Mallemaroking
Mark Brandon • July 30, 2015
Yet more beautiful MODIS imagery showing some wonderful patterns in a plankton bloom in the Barents Sea.
Plankton patterns in the Barents Sea
The screen grab is from the 250m resolution imagery, and the whole arctic panel shows just where the bloom is located.
The Arctic on 29 July 2015 in MODIS imagery
This particular region seems to show plankton blooms regularly in the MODIS imagery and the Wikipedia page has a similar (but not as nice) image dated summer 2009.
Posted in Science. Tags: Arctic, Barents Sea, MODIS, planton on July 30, 2015 by Mark Brandon.