About the Authors

Marta Ramírez-Pérez

mramirez@icm.csic.es

Affiliation Department of Physical and Technological Oceanography, Institute of Marine Sciences (ICM-CSIC), Barcelona, Spain

Rafael Gonçalves-Araujo

Affiliation Phytooptics Group, Physical Oceanography of Polar Seas, Climate Sciences Division, Alfred Wegener Institute Helmholtz Centre for Polar and Marine Research, Bremerhaven, Germany

Sonja Wiegmann

Affiliation Phytooptics Group, Physical Oceanography of Polar Seas, Climate Sciences Division, Alfred Wegener Institute Helmholtz Centre for Polar and Marine Research, Bremerhaven, Germany

Elena Torrecilla

Affiliation Department of Physical and Technological Oceanography, Institute of Marine Sciences (ICM-CSIC), Barcelona, Spain

Raul Bardaji

Affiliation Department of Physical and Technological Oceanography, Institute of Marine Sciences (ICM-CSIC), Barcelona, Spain

Rüdiger Röttgers

Affiliation Remote Sensing Department, Institute for Coastal Research, Centre for Materials and Coastal Research, Helmholtz-Zentrum Geesthacht, Geesthacht, Germany

Astrid Bracher

Affiliations Phytooptics Group, Physical Oceanography of Polar Seas, Climate Sciences Division, Alfred Wegener Institute Helmholtz Centre for Polar and Marine Research, Bremerhaven, Germany, Institute of Environmental Physics, University of Bremen, Bremen, Germany

Jaume Piera

Affiliation Department of Physical and Technological Oceanography, Institute of Marine Sciences (ICM-CSIC), Barcelona, Spain

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceptualization: MR-P RR AB JP. Formal analysis: MR-P RG-A. Funding acquisition: ET AB JP. Investigation: MR-P RG-A SW RB AB JP. Methodology: MR-P RR. Resources: SW. Software: RG-A. Supervision: AB JP. Validation: MR-P. Writing – original draft: MR-P. Writing – review & editing: RG-A ET RB RR AB JP.