Global Biosphere
The first truly global view of the Earth's biosphere is seen here. The composite
image of the ocean chlorophyll concentration was produced from 31,352, 4-km
resolution CZCS scenes from November 1978, through June 1981, each of which
corresponds to approximately 2 million square kilometers of ocean surface.
Nearly 400 billion bytes of raw CZCS data located on more than 12,000, 9-track
computer tapes were used to make this image. Land vegetation patterns are
derived from three years of daily images from NOAA-7's visible and near infrared
sensors (credit: C. J. Tucker, NASA/GSFC). Numbers on the inset show the
location of features illustrated in detail on other plates contained in this
folder.
| 6A - Upwelling Dynamics/Peru |
6B - Upwelling Dynamics/Africa |
1 - North Atlantic Productivity | 7A - Ocean Meanders/Agulhas, Africa |
2A - Polar Productivity/Arctic | 7B - Ocean Meanders/Equatorial Pacific |
2B - Polar Productivity/Antarctic | 8A - Coastal Features/Amazon |
3A - Western Boundary Currents/Gulf Stream | 8B - Coastal Features/Patagonia |
3B - Western Boundary Currents/Kuroshio | 8C - Coastal Features/Gulf of Mexico |
4 - Mediterranean | 8D - Coastal Features/Maldives, Indian Ocean |
5 - Indian Ocean Monsoon |
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