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Ensuring the accuracy of satellite ocean colour products to build a long-term record of changes in phytoplankton in the global ocean

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NCEO Scientists at Plymouth Marine Laboratory (PML)have conducted the largest ever global assessment of the accuracy of a wide range of satellite ocean colour products, which are developed by combining data from multiple satellites and used to examine the health and state of ocean ecosystems.
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Ocean biogeochemistry

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Ocean biogeochemistry and ecosystems are an essential Earth system component, both because of their uptake of antrophogenic carbon emissions (through biological carbon pump, i.e. air-sea fluxes, photosynthesis in the ocean and transport of carbon to the ocean bottom) and for providing living resources for billions of people around the world.
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