Skip to feedback

Images related to North Atlantic Bloom

North Atlantic Bloom
Image

North Atlantic Bloom

Published Jul 17, 2007

Water Color

Iceland’s Waters Abloom
Image

Iceland’s Waters Abloom

July 2019 brought the latest display of a phytoplankton bloom that occurs every year in the North Atlantic Ocean.

Published Jul 15, 2019

Image of the Day Water Remote Sensing

Iceland Sea in Bloom
Image

Iceland Sea in Bloom

Bright colors mark the return of the annual North Atlantic phytoplankton bloom to ocean waters from Denmark to Iceland.

Published Jul 12, 2013

Image of the Day Life Water

Patagonian Bloom
Image

Patagonian Bloom

Streaks of blue and green color the South Atlantic Ocean in this image from January 9 2010.

Published Jan 30, 2010

Image of the Day Water

Norwegian Fjord Turns Turquoise
Image

Norwegian Fjord Turns Turquoise

In May 2020, a vivid phytoplankton bloom colored the surface waters of the country’s second-longest fjord.

Published Jun 10, 2020

Image of the Day Water Water Color

Phytoplankton Bloom Near Norway
Image

Phytoplankton Bloom Near Norway

Published Aug 3, 2004

Water Color

Spring Bloom in the South Atlantic Ocean
Image

Spring Bloom in the South Atlantic Ocean

Intense streaks of blue and green colored the South Atlantic Ocean off the coast of Argentina on November 15, 2009.

Published Nov 21, 2009

Image of the Day Life Water Water Color

Dueling Blooms
Image

Dueling Blooms

Satellite imagers captured the transition from one blooming phytoplankton genus to another in the Barents Sea in the summer of 2014.

Published Aug 10, 2014

Image of the Day Life Water Water Color

Persistent Phytoplankton
Image

Persistent Phytoplankton

The waters off of Newfoundland were colored by coccolithophore blooms for two months.

Published Sep 21, 2020

Image of the Day Life Water Remote Sensing Water Color

Late Bloomers
Image

Late Bloomers

The waters around Newfoundland have been teeming with phytoplankton since the beginning of September.

Published Sep 23, 2019

Image of the Day Life Water

Bering Sea in Bloom
Image

Bering Sea in Bloom

Published May 21, 2002

Image of the Day Life Water

The North Sea Abloom
Image

The North Sea Abloom

Early summer water conditions provide fertile territory for phytoplankton blooms.

Published Jul 5, 2015

Image of the Day Life Water

Blooming Seas West of Ireland
Image

Blooming Seas West of Ireland

For several weeks in May and early June, daily satellite images of the North Atlantic Ocean west of Ireland have captured partial glimpses of luxuriant blooms of microscopic marine plants between patches of clouds. On June 4, 2007, the skies over the ocean cleared, displaying the sea’s spring bloom in brilliant color. A bright blue bloom stretches north from the Mouth of the River Shannon and tapers off like a plume of blue smoke north of Clare Island.

Published Jun 6, 2007

Image of the Day Life Water

Ocean Color off the Icelandic Coast
Image

Ocean Color off the Icelandic Coast

Those who live in the mid- to high-latitudes of the planet are familiar with the flush of green that comes with early summer as plants mature in the long, warm days. The ocean, too, comes alive during the spring and summer at those latitudes. During the darkness of winter, when the growth of plant-like marine life slows, nutrients accumulate in the surface waters of the cold northern (or southern) oceans. When light returns in the spring and summer, these plant-like organisms—phytoplankton—proliferate in the surface waters. Spring and early summer phytoplankton blooms can cover a broad swath of the ocean, providing an abundance of food to marine life.

Published Jul 18, 2008

Image of the Day Land Life Water

Did you find what you were looking for?