Satellite Lidar Observations of Polar Phytoplankton Biomass Cycles

Michael Behrenfeld1, Yongxiang Hu2, Robert T O'Malley3, Emmanuel Boss4, Chris A Hostetler2, David Siegel5, Jorge L Sarmiento6, Jennifer Schulien1, Johnathan W Hair7, Xiaomei Lu2, Sharon D Rodier8 and Amy Jo Scarino2, (1)Oregon State University, Corvallis, OR, United States, (2)NASA Langley Research Center, Hampton, VA, United States, (3)Oregon State University, Botany and Plant Pathology, Corvallis, OR, United States, (4)University of Maine, School of Marine Science, Orono, ME, United States, (5)University of California Santa Barbara, Santa Barbara, CA, United States, (6)Princeton University, Atmospheric and Oceanic Sciences Program, Princeton, NJ, United States, (7)NASA Langley, Hampton, VA, United States, (8)LARC NASA, Hampton, VA, United States