Phytoplankton blooms in the Southern Ocean have initiated later and terminated earlier over past 25 years

A trio of climatologists at the Southern Ocean Carbon–Climate Observatory, working with a colleague with the Coastal Systems and Earth Observation Research Group, all in South Africa, reports evidence that phytoplankton have initiated later and terminated earlier in the Southern Ocean over the past quarter century. In their study, reported in the journal Nature Climate Change, Sandy Thomalla, Sarah-Anne Nicholson, Thomas Ryan-Keogh and Marié Smith, analyzed of 25 years of satellite ocean color chlorophyl-a data.


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Source: Phys.org