SeaWiFS: West Florida Shelf Turbidity

The turbidity of the water over the West Florida Shelf has increased markedly over the past few days as can be seen in this series of SeaWiFS images. It is possible that this may be caused, at least in part, by increased river discharge after the recent heavy precipitation in parts of the southeastern U.S.

The long narrow cloud that passes just south of Lake George in the December 17 image appears to be a smoke plume.

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

Published December 18, 2000
Data acquired December 13 - 18, 2000

Source:

OrbView-2 > SeaWiFS

Topics:

Hydrosphere > Surface Water > Runoff

Hydrosphere > Water Quality > Turbidity

Oceans > Ocean Optics > Turbidity