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Beyond Blue: Why Ocean Color Really Matters

[18-Sep-2020] In these excerpts from Beyond Blue: Why Ocean Color Really Matters, Project Scientist Dr. Jeremy Werdell and Mission Systems Engineer Dr. Gary Davis discuss how we use ocean color to estimate the contents of our ocean.

Jeremy WerdellDr. Jeremy Werdell
PACE Project Scientist
Goddard Space Flight Center


Gary DavisDr. Gary Davis
PACE Mission Systems Engineer
Goddard Space Flight Center


Ocean color image of an underwater volcanic eruption in the Canary Islands
The Discipline of Ocean Color
Observing color one wavelength at a time
movie clip | MP4, 4.9 MB
Earth’s biosphere
The Colors of the Ocean
Watching our Earth breathe
movie clip | MP4, 15.5 MB
Artist rendering of the Nimbus series of satellites
The History of Ocean Color Detection
Building the newest instrument
movie clip | MP4, 7.4 MB
The visible spectrum
How Ocean Color Works
Viewing Earth processes from space for the first time
movie clip | MP4, 6.1 MB
The Starry Night by Vincent van Gogh
Resolving the Ocean Color Signal
Viewing the entire spectrum
movie clip | MP4, 8.7 MB
Radiance diagram
The Oceanographer’s Challenge
Looking past the atmosphere to the sea
movie clip | MP4, 3.6 MB
Arabian Sea
Fine Tuning the Resolution
Removing the atmosphere
movie clip | MP4, 14.6 MB