Ocean Color Remote Sensing of Suspended Sediments along a Continuum from Rivers to River Plumes: Concentration, Transport, Fluxes and Dynamics
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| Date | 2022-05 | ||||||||
| Language | English | ||||||||
| Author(s) | Ody Anouck1, Doxaran David1, Verney Romaric 2, Bourrin François3, Morin Guillaume P.4, Pairaud Ivane5, Gangloff Aurélien6 |
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| Affiliation(s) | 1 : UMR 7093 CNRS/SU, Laboratoire d’Océanographie de Villefranche, 06230 Villefranche-sur-Mer, France 2 : Laboratoire de Dynamique Hydro-Sédimentaire (PDG-ODE-DYNECO-DHYSED), IFREMER, 29280 Plouzané, France 3 : UMR 5110 CNRS-UPVD, CEFREM, Université de Perpignan, 66860 Perpignan, France 4 : INRAE, Aix Marseille University, UMR RECOVER, F-13182/Pôle ECLA, 13100 Aix-en-Provence, France 5 : UMR 6523 CNRS, IFREMER, IRD, UBO, Laboratoire d’Océanographie Physique et Spatiale, 29280 Plouzané, France 6 : Service Hydrographique et Océanographique de la Marine (SHOM), 29200 Brest, France |
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| Source | Remote Sensing (2072-4292) (MDPI AG), 2022-05 , Vol. 14 , N. 9 , P. 2026 (36p.) | ||||||||
| DOI | 10.3390/rs14092026 | ||||||||
| WOS© Times Cited | 3 | ||||||||
| Note | This article belongs to the Section Ocean Remote Sensing | ||||||||
| Keyword(s) | ocean color, suspended particulate matter, river mouth continuum, liquid and solid river discharges into the coastal ocean | ||||||||
| Abstract | This study investigates the capability of high and medium spatial resolution ocean color satellite data to monitor the transport of suspended particulate matter (SPM) along a continuum from river to river mouth to river plume. An existing switching algorithm combining the use of green, red and near-infrared satellite wavebands was improved to retrieve SPM concentrations over the very wide range (from 1 to more than 1000 g.m−3) encountered over such a continuum. The method was applied to time series of OLI, MSI, and MODIS satellite data. Satisfactory validation results were obtained even at the river gauging station. The river liquid discharge is not only related to the SPM concentration at the gauging station and at the river mouth, but also to the turbid plume area and SPM mass estimated within the surface of the plume. The overall results highlight the potential of combined field and ocean color satellite observations to monitor the transport and fluxes of SPM discharged by rivers into the coastal ocean |
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