Why Is Atlantic Ocean Brown?
As Light Bounces off and Passes Through Water, It Reflects the Color Blue Back to Our Eyes, but Microscopic Algae and Tiny Sediments Known as Colored Dissolved...
colored dissolved organic matter
Also known as chromophoric dissolved organic matter, yellow substance, and gelbstoff, CDOM occurs naturally in aquatic environments and is a complex mixture of many hundreds to thousands of individual, unique organic matter molecules, which are primarily leached from decaying detritus and organic matter.
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Why is the Atlantic Ocean so murky?
It's about what's in the waterThat's because that murky water is typically home to more living organisms, including phytoplankton (algae) and zooplankton (jellyfish and other ocean-wandering animals), which in turn make the water appear cloudy.
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Why is NJ ocean water brown?
Some sediment comes from the rivers — finer-grained silts and clays will stay suspended in the water longer — and gives the water more of a brown and opaque look.
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