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Spring Greening Around Hokkaido

Seasonal blooms of phytoplankton off Japan are provoked by nutrient rich currents in the northwestern Pacific Ocean.


NASA Earth Observatory image by Jesse Allen, using data from the Ocean Color Web. Caption by Michael Carlowicz

Published April 10, 2013
Data acquired March 27, 2013

Source:
Aqua > MODIS