SIF ocean
Map showing the ability to 'see through clouds' with red SIF

We can now see chlorophyll fluorescence over the oceans

  • by Troy Magney

New paper published in Geophysical Research Letters shows how we can use the red fluorescence emission from the TROPOMI satellite to 'see' photosynthetic activity in the ocean. Check it out here!

Köhler, P., Behrenfeld, M. J., Landgraf, J., Joiner, J., Magney, T. S., & Frankenberg, C. (2020). Global Retrievals of Solar‐Induced Chlorophyll Fluorescence at Red Wavelengths With TROPOMI. Geophysical Research Letters, e2020GL087541.

https://agupubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.1029/2020GL087541