Fig. 2: Characterization of the water-type classes in terms of the satellite data in addition to a monthly class climatology over the area of interest.
a Boxplots (red line = median; upper and lower box limits = 75th and 25th percentiles; dotted line limits: upper and lower adjacents; red crosses = Outliers) showing the Chl-a concentration and the SST ranges per class, in addition to the mean normalized Rrs spectral shapes per class, determined after the classification of the satellite data via a self-organizing map and a hierarchal ascending classification. b Climatology of the classes over the studied region for the months where elephant seal prey–catch attempt (PrCA) data is available, between 2003 and 2021.
