South-west Taiwan coastal transect, 2009

A short LIF lidar transect off south-western Taiwan in February 2009, recording subtropical, sediment-influenced Case-2 coastal water

Published figures

Interpolated campaign fields, reproduced in their original published form.

Interpolated chlorophyll a field mapped along the lidar track, Taiwan Strait, 2009 campaign — Fig. 1Chlorophyll a

Interpolated total suspended matter field mapped along the lidar track, Taiwan Strait, 2009 campaign — Fig. 2TSM

Taiwan StraitPacific Ocean

● Taiwan Strait 2009, 2009-02-17 – 2009-02-18521 measurements IDW interpolation, 521 samples

Chl-a1.729.17µg/L

Fig. 3 Campaign measurement record. 521 lidar returns are plotted along the vessel track for Chl-a. The field view applies inverse-distance weighting to the same observations; the shoreline is from Natural Earth.

In February 2009, a LIF lidar completed a short transect off the south-western coast of Taiwan. The campaign measured subtropical, sediment-influenced Case-2 water and is the only western Pacific entry in the current field archive.

Although the transect is brief, it extends the geographic and optical range of the record beyond the European, Black Sea, and Arctic waters represented by most other campaigns.