Hilde Oliver

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Assistant Scientist at WHOI, oceanographer / sea-going modeler 🌊 physical-biological interactions, polar and coastal systems 🇦🇶 Canadian-East Tennesseean https://www2.whoi.edu/staff/holiver

Two subplots, showing the median and IQR Chl % difference and NPP % difference between the L2gen and POLYMER Chl products as a function of distance from the coastline. Both show an exponential decay from the coastline to ~100 km from the coast, with Chl being a factor of 600% different at the coast, and NPP being a factor of ~70% different.

Figure 1 from the paper, showing four subplots of maps of the west Antarctic shelf extending from the West Antarctic Peninsula to the Ross Sea. Figure caption: January 10-yr (2010–2019) mean (a) OBPG/L2gen Chl a (which shows low Chl near the coastline), (b) OBPG nFLH (which shows elevated nFLH near the coastline), (c) OC-CCI Chl a (which also shows high Chl near the coast, agreeing with the pattern in the nFLH), and (d) difference in Chl a products OC-CCI Chl a minus OBPG/L2gen Chl a, over the west Antarctic shelf (which shows a band of much higher Chl, ~5-10 ug/L, extending along the entire west Antarctic coastline).