On the Correlation of Sea Surface Temperature and Chlorophyll in Upwelling Events from Satellite Imagery

  1. J Alonso del Rosario, Jose 1
  2. Elisabeth Blazquez Gomez 1
  3. Juan M Vidal Perez 2
  1. 1 Department Applied Physics, University of Cadiz, Spain
  2. 2 Department Ship-building, University of Cadiz, Spain
Journal:
Oceanography & Fisheries Open access Journal

ISSN: 2476-0536

Year of publication: 2017

Volume: 5

Issue: 1

Pages: 555655

Type: Review

DOI: 10.19080/OFOAJ.2017.05.555655 GOOGLE SCHOLAR lock_openOpen access editor

More publications in: Oceanography & Fisheries Open access Journal

Abstract

The relationship between SST and chlorophyll fields from satellite imagery can be computed from several methods. However, the value of the correlation of both fields uses to be lower than expected. It is demonstrated that this is due to a shift between the two fields from the time response of the biological system and the marine dynamic. Authors present a simple method to correct the shift between both fields based on the computation of their skeletons to improve the correlation.