Satellite survey of seasonal trophic status and occasional anoxic crises ?Malaigues? in the Thau lagoon using MeRIS images

2011

International audience; The Thau lagoon, located in southern France, suffers episodically from anoxic crises locally known as'malaigue'. Such crises mostly occur under warm conditions, low winds leading to a strongeutrophication of the lagoon. The development of a sulphur bacterium sometimes gives locally to thewaters a 'milky turquoise' appearance and leads to shellfish mortality. One of the indicators of theeutrophication status of the lagoon can be surveyed by the chlorophyll product provided by remotesensing images such as Medium Resolution Imaging Spectrometer (MERIS). In this paper wecompare chl2 (or algal2) estimations provided by MERIS level 2 products and the groundmeasurements of …