Satellite images of Emiliania huxleyi blooms in the Northern North
Atlantic
[click on the small pictures on this page to view them at full size]
SeaWiFS
image of a bloom south of Iceland, June 21st, 2004. Provided by the
SeaWiFS Project, NASA/Goddard Space Flight Center and ORBIMAGE.
Three satellite images
(SeaWiFS)
of a bloom south, west and south-west of Iceland, June 15th, 1998. Provided
by the SeaWiFS Project, NASA/Goddard Space Flight Center and ORBIMAGE.
A satellite picture of the enormous bloom south of Iceland in the North
Atlantic, June 1991. Oceanographers who sampled this bloom found the water
to be full of coccoliths. (Photo from Steve Groom / Patrick Holligan).
Ocean in Motion: a video clip prepared from successive
satellite images of the extensive 1991 Ehux bloom south of Iceland, with the
coccoliths act as visual tracers highlighting, literally, ocean currents
moving across the bloom area (produced by Steve Groom).
Ehux
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