Phenology of Trichodesmium spp. blooms in the Great Barrier Reef lagoon, Australia, from the ESA-MERIS 10-year mission

For this study, DBP was partly supported by a NAMRA post-doctoral fellowship and by CSIRO Oceans and Atmosphere funding. CNR, the RITMARE Flagship Project and the European Union (FP7-427 People Co-funding of Regional, National and International Programmes, GA n. 600407) supported VEB. Collection of the nutrient data presented in this study was obtained with support from the Great Barrier Reef Marine Park Authority (GBRMPA), through funding from the Australian Government's Caring for our Country Program and from the Australian Institute of Marine Science. The authors acknowledge the data providers: The European Space Agency (ESA) and ACRI-ST (www.acri-st.fr/) for providing the MERIS RR dataset; The Bureau of Meteorology (BoM; www.bom.gov.au), IMOS (Integrated Marine Observing System; http://imos.org.au) and eReefs (http://ereefs.org.au).The authors are grateful to: Elsevier Language Editing Services for providing editing support; Jonathan Hodge (CSIRO Oceans and Atmosphere) for providing guidance in extracting the wind data from eReefs; CSIRO Data61 (Ecosciences Precinct) for advice for parts of the data analysis, and Dr Phillip Ford, Dr Peter Rothlisberg and Dr Tim Malthus (CSIRO Oceans and Atmosphere) for comments on previous versions of the manuscript. All the processing of the ESA MERIS imagery was performed with the Sentinel Application Platform (SNAP) (Brockmann Consult).