GLIN==> April 16, 2009 NASA Terra Images - Lower Great Lakes

On April 16, 2009, NASA's TERRA satellite had
a good view of the lower Great Lakes, and the Moderate Imaging
Resolution Spectrophotometer (MODIS) aboard TERRA
gathered some interesting imagery.

WARNING - large download  5-7 MB;  this imagery is sometimes
easier to view in darkened room.

http://rapidfire.sci.gsfc.nasa.gov/realtime/single.php?2009106/crefl1_143.A2009106161500-2009106162000.250m.jpg

Great Lakes are to the upper quadrant of the image.

Phytoplankton formed in the discharge of the
Saginaw River to Saginaw Bay are apparent, as well as
phytoplankton found in offstore waters on Michigan's thumb NW shore
areas in the Bay.

Both phytoplankton and solid particle (browner areas) pollution
evident in the Ontario waters of extreme SE lower Lake Huron.

Western Ontario, Michigan, Ohio transboundary region

http://www.sagady.com/nasa/ohmiwestontariotransbound04162009.jpg

Phytoplankton in nearer shore waters of Lake Michigan from
Berrien County to near the Illinois-Indiana line.

Lake St. Clair is a phytoplankton-brown turbidity ying yang.
Brown turbidity from a prior precipitation river turbidity event that 
was discharged
to the lake flows through the Straight of Detroit
through the  Detroit River to pollute western Lake Erie
south of the mouth of the Detroit River.

http://www.sagady.com/nasa/lkstclairtightshot04162009.jpg

http://www.sagady.com/nasa/straightofdetroit04162009.jpg

Brown turbid waters from the Maumee River
and Sandusky Bay cause western Lake Erie
turbidity.   Considerable phytoplankton evident
throughout western Lake Erie.

http://www.sagady.com/nasa/westlakeerie04162009.jpg

Possible phytoplankton outbreak in the north tip of the
middle finger lake in NY.


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