Supported by the National Basic Research Program/the International Cooperative Program (Nos.2006CB403603,2006CB40302/05,2006DFB21630);the National Natural Science Foundation of China (Nos.40876008,40520140074);the Knowledge Innovation Program of the Chinese Academy of Sciences (No.KZCX2-YW-214)
Using 10-year (January 1998-October 2007) dataset of Sea-viewing Wide Field-of-view Sensor (SeaWiFS), we extracted the dominant spatial patterns and temporal variations of the chlorophyll distribution in the centr...