Chlorophyll-a concentration derived by GLI ocean-color algorithm (OTSK2) from MODIS L1B data in 20 February 2001.

The "ocean color" can be interpreted as the amount of phytoplankton chlorophyll-a. This image indicates that biological activities is higher in the continental shelf in the East China Sea.

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