Water Clarity of Great Lakes

This SeaWiFS image shows four of the Great Lakes. Lake Michigan is beginning to exhibit a bloom of some sort similar to one that began last year at about this time. Lake Erie looks like the most eutrophic of the lakes.

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Provided by the SeaWiFS Project, NASA/Goddard Space Flight Center, and ORBIMAGE

Published August 15, 1999
Data acquired August 15, 1999

Source:

OrbView-2 > SeaWiFS

Topics:

Biosphere > Microbiota > Phytoplankton

Biosphere > Vegetation > Phytoplankton

Human Dimensions > Environmental Impacts > Eutrophication