OCEAN COLOUR AND OTHER OPTICAL SATELLITE DATA VERSUS IN-SITU DATA

Different optical data are available at JRC database, covering partly the same time period. The idea of this paper was to extract monthly mean data from the geoportal from different satellites for the same location in the open middle Adriatic Sea and compare them with each other and with the in-situ optically weighted monthly chlorophyll pigments. The correlation coefficients were calculated between various optical data retrieved from the satellites like Chlorophyll data from SeaWiFS, MODIS and MERIS diffuse attenuation coefficient, absorption coefficient, particulate backscattering coefficient and euphotic zone depth with the monthly in-situ chlorophyll and Secchi disk transparency