Some Tea With Your River, Sir?: Dissolved organic matter from the forests and wetlands stained the water dark...

Some Tea With Your River, Sir? : Image of the Day

earthobservatory.nasa.gov 30 Sep '16, 10pm

Some Tea With Your River, Sir?: Dissolved organic matter from the forests and wetlands stained the water dark...

When the Operational Land Imager (OLI) on Landsat 8 captured this image of Rupert Bay on July 30, 2016, tannin-stained (dark brown) river water was flowing into the bay at the same time that turbid seawater appeared to be pushing in due to the rising tide. The shallowness of the bay, some suspended mud and sediment kicked up by the tide, and mixing of the stained river water and sea water likely gave the sea water a light brown appearance. Note that the colored plumes and intricate vortices around the islands are pointing inland—an indicator that the tide was likely coming in or that northwesterly winds were affecting the flow of the water. The lowermost image shows a detailed view of von Kármán vortices formed as water flowed past a small island in the bay. A more general term for the organic substances that can stain water is colored dissolved organic matter (CDOM). “In ...

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Some Tea With Your River, Sir? : Image of the Day

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