Figure 5
From: Gap-filling of ocean color over the tropical Indian Ocean using Monte-Carlo method
Annual cycle of chlorophyll and its spatial distribution in the Arabian Sea and Bay of Bengal for the original and gap-filled datasets. Climatological annual cycle of reconstructed chlorophyll (8-day composites) for the period 1998–2019 in the (a) Arabian Sea [60°E–70°E, 8°N–16°N], and (b) Bay of Bengal [85°E–95°E, 8°N–16°N]. Light Blue line indicates ESA v4.2 satellite chlorophyll (original data); pink line represents the mean of gap-filled chlorophyll datasets (reconstructed data); and violet line represents the climatology of the gap-filled annual cycle reconstructed by Levy. The boxplot overlaid on the time series represents the range of values between the 25th and the 75th percentile. The black dots represents the outliers. Spatial distribution of chlorophyll concentration (in mg/m3) in the tropical Indian Ocean for the period 1998–2019 in (c) satellite chlorophyll, (d) reconstructed chlorophyll using our proposed methodology, and (e) Levy’s reconstructed dataset. This figure is created using Python 3.9.10 software (https://docs.python.org/release/3.9.10/).
