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Plankton thrive in Australia’s Leeuwin Current during the fall and winter, even though warm oceans are usually too poor in nutrients to support such blooms.
NASA Earth Observatory images by Jesse Allen, using MODIS data provided by NASA’s Ocean Color web. Caption by Holli Riebeek with review from Norman Kuring and Lachlan McKinna. This image is based on SST and chlorophyll originally published on NASA’s Ocean Color Web.
Published July 2, 2014 Data acquired June 6, 2014