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Nature 397, 301-302 (28 January 1999) | doi:10.1038/16808

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Oceanography:  Colour renewal from space

Raymond Sambrotto1

Late last year, oceanographers gathered in San Francisco* to take stock of results from SeaWiFS — the 'Sea-Viewing Wide-Field-of-View Sensor', NASA's newest satellite-borne sensor primarily dedicated to ocean biology. Launched in 1997, the project has delivered a year's worth of information on the distribution and abundance of phytoplankton, the single-celled plants responsible for roughly half of the biological production on the planet (Fig. 1

  1. Raymond Sambrotto is in the Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory of Columbia University, PO Box 1000, Palisades, New York 10964, USA.
    e-mail: Email: sambrott@ldeo.columbia.edu