Mean summer surface concentrations of chlorophyll a in the Greater North Sea, the Irish Sea and the north-east Atlantic, 2003

Figure Created 12 Nov 2009 Published 12 Nov 2009 Last modified 29 Nov 2012

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Topics: Water and marine environment ,

Coastal stations are marked by circles and ICES open-water stations by squares

Last upload:: 12 Jan 2007
Methodology:: The map is based on a .dbf file named after its season-location (e.g. summermeans_baltic.dbf containing Chlorophyll A values from the Baltic Sea, incl. longitude/latitude by station). The name location part of the name has an "OW" postfix if it contains Open Water data, otherwise data are form coastal stations. The colours of the legend are based on the 20%, 40%, 60% and 80% percentiles of the indicator presented.
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Owners:: European Environment Agency (EEA)
Processors:: European Topic Centre on Inland, Coastal and Marine waters (ICM)
Figure type:: Map