Oceanographic data archaeology (salvaging historical ocean
data) is, according to Parker [1], a critical requirement for climate
change research when the data (e.g., temperature and salinity)
cover long time periods. Changing climate will affect marine life,
and this, in turn, plays a crucial role in climate control [2]. As a
matter of fact, phytoplankton accounts for nearly half of Earth’s
total primary productivity [3]. Phytoplankton biomass is nowadays
readily derived from satellite data [4]; indeed, chlorophyll provides
the best index of phytoplankton biomass for primary productivity
studies, as was recently confirmed by Huot et al. [5]. Long-term
changes in ocean primary production may well have important
consequences for the ocean food chain, as well as for the global
carbon cycle [6]
Oceanographic data archaeology (salvaging historical ocean
data) is, according to Parker [1], a critical requirement for climate
change research when the data (e.g., temperature and salinity)
cover long time periods. Changing climate will affect marine life,
and this, in turn, plays a crucial role in climate control [2]. As a
matter of fact, phytoplankton accounts for nearly half of Earth’s
total primary productivity [3]. Phytoplankton biomass is nowadays
readily derived from satellite data [4]; indeed, chlorophyll provides
the best index of phytoplankton biomass for primary productivity
studies, as was recently confirmed by Huot et al. [5]. Long-term
changes in ocean primary production may well have important
consequences for the ocean food chain, as well as for the global
carbon cycle [6]
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