Coastal phytoplankton blooms expand and intensify in the 21st century:data and code

This repository contains the relevant dataset and code for the paper Coastal phytoplankton blooms expand and intensify in the 21st century.

We generated a satellite-based dataset of phytoplankton bloom occurrence to characterize the spatial and temporal patterns of algal blooms in coastal oceans globally. The dataset was derived using global, 1-km resolution daily observations from the Moderate Resolution Imaging Spectroradiometer (MODIS) onboard NASA's Aqua satellite, and all 0.76 million images acquired by this satellite mission between 2003 and 2020 were used. 

Please refer to the README file in code_examples.rar file for more detailed information.