Assessment of the Impacts From the World's Largest Floating Macroalgae Blooms on the Water Clarity at the West Yellow Sea Using MODIS Data (2002-2016).

Water clarity (Secchi disk depth, SDD) is a very important factor for marine ecological environment. The world's largest “green tide” caused by the macroalgal blooms (MABs) of green macroalgae has occurred every summer in the Yellow Sea since 2008. In this study, we first present the effects of MABs on the water clarity in the west Yellow Sea. A regional empirical retrieval algorithm of SDD on the...