Modelling the chlorophyll concentration of phytoplankton groups from space: integrating considerations from ecosystem modellers

Robert J W Brewin1, Stefano Ciavatta2, Jozef Skakala2, Shubha Sathyendranath1, Thomas Jackson1, Gavin Tilstone3, Kieran Francis Curran3, Ruth L Airs1, Denise Cummings4, Vanda Brotas5, Emanuele Organelli1, Giorgio Dall'Olmo6 and Dionysios E Raitsos2, (1)Plymouth Marine Laboratory, Plymouth, United Kingdom, (2)National Centre for Earth Observation, Plymouth, United Kingdom, (3)Plymouth Marine Laboratory, Remote Sensing Group, Plymouth, United Kingdom, (4)Plymouth Marine Laboratory, United Kingdom, (5)Universidade de Lisboa, MARE – Marine and Environmental Sciences Centre, Lisboa, Portugal, (6)Plymouth marine Laboratory, National Centre for Earth Observation, Plymouth, United Kingdom