Implementing and innovating marine monitoring approaches for assessing marine environmental status

R Danovaro, L Carugati, M Berzano… - Frontiers in Marine …, 2016 - frontiersin.org
Marine environmental monitoring has tended to focus on site-specific methods of
investigation. These traditional methods have low spatial and temporal resolution and are …

Bridging the gap between policy and science in assessing the health status of marine ecosystems

A Borja, M Elliott, PVR Snelgrove, MC Austen… - Frontiers in Marine …, 2016 - frontiersin.org
Human activities, both established and emerging, increasingly affect the provision of marine
ecosystem services that deliver societal and economic benefits. Monitoring the status of …

Ocean surface partitioning strategies using ocean colour remote Sensing: A review

LA Krug, T Platt, S Sathyendranath… - Progress in …, 2017 - Elsevier
The ocean surface is organized into regions with distinct properties reflecting the complexity
of interactions between environmental forcing and biological responses. The delineation of …

Uses of innovative modeling tools within the implementation of the Marine Strategy Framework Directive

CP Lynam, L Uusitalo, J Patrício, C Piroddi… - Frontiers in Marine …, 2016 - frontiersin.org
In Europe and around the world, the approach to management of the marine environment
has developed from the management of single issues (eg, species and/or pressures) toward …

Biodiversity in marine ecosystems—European developments toward robust assessments

AS Heiskanen, T Berg, L Uusitalo, H Teixeira… - Frontiers in Marine …, 2016 - frontiersin.org
Sustainability of marine ecosystems and their services are dependent on marine
biodiversity, which is threatened worldwide. Biodiversity protection is a major target of the …

Unravelling region-specific environmental drivers of phytoplankton across a complex marine domain (off SW Iberia)

LA Krug, T Platt, S Sathyendranath… - Remote Sensing of …, 2017 - Elsevier
Phytoplankton, the dominant marine primary producers, are considered to be highly
sensitive indicators of ecosystem condition and change. The southwest area off the Iberian …

Patterns and drivers of phytoplankton phenology off SW Iberia: A phenoregion based perspective

LA Krug, T Platt, S Sathyendranath… - Progress in …, 2018 - Elsevier
Phytoplankton patterns, tightly linked to the dynamics of the ocean surface layer and its
atmospheric forcing, have major impacts on ecosystem functioning and are valuable …

[HTML][HTML] Characterizing phytoplankton biomass seasonal cycles in two NE Atlantic coastal bays

M Santos, H Mourino, MT Moita, A Silva… - Continental Shelf …, 2020 - Elsevier
The seasonal and interannual variability of chlorophyll a was studied between 2008 and
2016 in two coastal bays located in the northeastern limit of the Iberia/Canary upwelling …

A high‐performance computing framework for Monte Carlo ocean color simulations

T Kajiyama, D D'Alimonte… - … and Computation: Practice …, 2017 - Wiley Online Library
This paper presents a high‐performance computing (HPC) framework for Monte Carlo (MC)
simulations in the ocean color (OC) application domain. The objective is to optimize a …

Algal Pigment Index 2 in the Atlantic off the southwest Iberian Peninsula: standard and regional algorithms

P Goela, S Cristina, T Kajiyama, J Icely, G Moore… - Ocean …, 2016 - os.copernicus.org
In this study, Algal Pigment Index 2 (API2) is investigated in Sagres, an area located in the
Atlantic off the southwestern Iberian Peninsula. Standard results provided by the MEdium …