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The remote sensing data obtained by Coastal Zone Color Scanner (CZCS) on the satellite “Nimbus-7” collected during the period from 1978 to 1986 were used to analyse the seasonal variation of surface plant pigments distribution in the Black Sea, presented here on maps for each climatological month. The pattern of seasonal variations is typical for subtropical regions rather than for the temperate ones. The range of the absolute value of plant pigment surface concentration measured by remote sensing does not differ greatly from the values measured by direct methods.
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Nezlin, N.P. (1997). Seasonal Variation of Surface Pigment Distribution in the Black Sea on CZCS Data. In: Özsoy, E., Mikaelyan, A. (eds) Sensitivity to Change: Black Sea, Baltic Sea and North Sea. NATO ASI Series, vol 27. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-011-5758-2_11
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