Beguiling Bloom in The Baltic Sea - NASA Earth Observatory
Aug 19, 2020 · These natural-color images, acquired on August 15, 2020, with the Operational Land Imager (OLI) on Landsat 8, show a late-summer phytoplankton bloom swirling in the …
Algae blooms have arrived in the Baltic Sea
Jun 27, 2024 · Algal blooms occur naturally in lakes and seas, but when phytoplankton or cyanobacteria proliferate extensively, it becomes problematic. The cause of large algal blooms …
Summer Blooms in the Baltic and Barents - NASA Earth Observatory
Jul 23, 2018 · Three decades of satellite observations suggest that these green blooms are likely to be cyanobacteria (blue-green algae), an ancient type of marine bacteria that capture and …
Algae blooms in the Baltic Sea causing oxygen levels to plummet
A heatwave triggered a massive algae bloom in the Baltic last week that shut down beaches along the coast. In humans, high doses of the toxins can cause liver damage and attack the nervous …
Cyanobacteria blooms in the Baltic Sea: a review of models and …
Apr 13, 2021 · This study summarizes knowledge about cyanobacteria dynamics in the Baltic Sea and compares it with current state-of-the-art biogeochemical Baltic Sea models. Our aim is to …
Harmful algal blooms and their effects in coastal seas of
Harmful algal blooms (HAB) are recurrent phenomena in northern Europe along the coasts of the Baltic Sea, Kattegat-Skagerrak, eastern North Sea, Norwegian Sea and the Barents Sea. …
Monitoring Harmful Algal Bloom in the Baltic Sea: HAB-RISK …
The HAB-RISK consortium has developed a service for the Baltic Sea which daily detects Harmful Algal Bloom (HAB) and proposes drift forecasts.
Algae bloom formation in the Baltic Sea/Curonian Lagoon
On July 10th, 2024, one of the Copernicus Sentinel-2 satellites acquired this image of swirling green blooms in the Baltic Sea and Curonian Lagoon. Nutrient concentration and water …
Swirling Green Algae Blooms in Baltic Sea Viewed From
Dec 18, 2019 · Satellite image of algae blooms in the Central Baltic and around the island of Gotland. Satellite data can notify and reduce tourist and fishing industry damage from toxic …
ESA - Baltic blooms - European Space Agency
Dec 13, 2019 · In most of the Baltic Sea, there are two annual blooms – the spring bloom and the cyanobacterial (also called blue-green algae) bloom in late summer. The Baltic Sea faces …