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Remote Sensing and the Gulf Stream

Sea-viewing Wide Field-of-view Sensor (SeaWiFS)

http://oceancolor.gsfc.nasa.gov/SeaWiFS/BACKGROUND/

Photo Credits and General Resources

Gulf Stream, Western North Atlantic, June 1984

http://seawifs.gsfc.nasa.gov/OCEAN_PLANET/IMAGES/G-544.gif

Bonito fish caught for consumption

http://i.huffpost.com/gen/1352080/images/o-FISHERIES-facebook.jpg

Advanced Very High Resolution Radiometer (AVHRR)

https://podaac.jpl.nasa.gov/AVHRR-Pathfinder

Advanced Microwave Scanning Radiometer

https://earthdata.nasa.gov/earth-observation-data/near-real-time/near-real-time-amsr2-data-being-released

Lionfish

http://www.thenakedscientists.com/HTML/interviews/interview/2116/

Eddies in the Gulf Stream

https://www.classzone.com/books/earth_science/terc/content/investigations/es2403/es2403page06.cfm

The Northern Wall

http://people.atmos.ucla.edu/gula/research.php

For background and details on eddies in the Gulf Stream:

https://www.classzone.com/books/earth_science/terc/content/investigations/es2403/es2403page01.cfm

For a general overview of several issues impacting fisheries
https://marine-conservation.org/media/shining_sea/place_atlantic_gulf.htm

North wall background:

http://www.starpath.com/cgi-bin/web_card/courses/glossary.pl?show_def=1121

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