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Charles R. McClain is affiliated with the Goddard Space Flight Center in the United States. Their research primarily spans the fields of Earth and Planetary Sciences and Environmental Science, with a particular focus on oceanographic and atmospheric processes.

The main subfields covered by their work include Oceanography, Atmospheric Science, Aerospace Engineering, Water Science and Technology, and Industrial and Manufacturing Engineering. Their research topics emphasize marine and coastal ecosystems, atmospheric ozone and climate, calibration and measurement techniques, water quality monitoring technologies and analysis, as well as ocean acidification effects and responses.

Recent publications authored or co-authored by Charles R. McClain include the following:

  • The Ocean Color Instrument (OCI) on the Plankton, Aerosol, Cloud, ocean Ecosystem (PACE) Mission: System Design and Prelaunch Radiometric Performance, 2024, IEEE Transactions on Geoscience and Remote Sensing
  • Genesis and Evolution of NASA's Satellite Ocean Color Program, 2022, Frontiers in Remote Sensing
  • An Unlikely Career in Satellite Ocean Biology or "OK, now what?", 2021, Perspectives of Earth and Space Scientists

Frequent co-authors collaborating with Charles R. McClain include:

  • P. Jeremy Werdell
  • Gerhard Meister
  • Joseph J. Knuble
  • U. Gliese
  • Robert Bousquet

They have published repeatedly in venues such as IEEE Transactions on Geoscience and Remote Sensing, Frontiers in Remote Sensing, Perspectives of Earth and Space Scientists, and Marine Ecology Progress Series.

Best Publications

  • Climate-driven trends in contemporary ocean productivity

    Michael J. Behrenfeld;Robert T. O'Malley;David A. Siegel;Charles R. McClain

  • Asian Dust Events of April 1998

    Rudolf B. Husar;D. M. Tratt;B. A. Schichtel;S. R. Falke

  • Biospheric Primary Production During an ENSO Transition

    Michael J. Behrenfeld;James T. Randerson;Charles R. McClain;Gene C. Feldman

  • A decade of satellite ocean color observations.

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  • An overview of the SeaWiFS project and strategies for producing a climate research quality global ocean bio-optical time series

    Charles R. McClain;Gene C. Feldman;Stanford B. Hooker

  • Light limitation of phytoplankton biomass and macronutrient utilization in the Southern Ocean

    B. Greg Mitchell;Eric A. Brody;Osmund Holm-Hansen;Charles McClain

  • The dispersal of the Amazon's water

    Frank E. Muller-Karger;Charles R. McClain;Philip L. Richardson

  • Distributions of phytoplankton blooms in the Southern Ocean

    C. W. Sullivan;K. R. Arrigo;C. R. McClain;J. C. Comiso

  • The calibration and validation of SeaWiFS data

    S.B. Hooker;C.R. McClain

  • Satellite-detected fluorescence reveals global physiology of ocean phytoplankton

    M. J. Behrenfeld;T. K. Westberry;Emmanuel Boss;R. T. O'Malley

  • Coastal zone color scanner pigment concentrations in the Southern Ocean and relationships to geophysical surface features

    J. C. Comiso;C. R. McClain;C. W. Sullivan;J. P. Ryan

  • The Plankton, Aerosol, Cloud, Ocean Ecosystem Mission: Status, Science, Advances

    P. Jeremy Werdell;Michael J. Behrenfeld;Paula S. Bontempi;Emmanuel Boss

  • Maritime Aerosol Network as a component of Aerosol Robotic Network

    A. Smirnov;B. N. Holben;I. Slutsker;D. M. Giles

  • Pigment distribution in the Caribbean sea: Observations from space

    Frank E Muller-Karger;C. R McClain;T. R Fisher;W. E Esaias

  • New aerosol models for the retrieval of aerosol optical thickness and normalized water-leaving radiances from the SeaWiFS and MODIS sensors over coastal regions and open oceans

    Ziauddin Ahmad;Bryan A. Franz;Charles R. McClain;Ewa J. Kwiatkowska

  • The phytoplankton bloom in the northwestern Arabian Sea during the southwest monsoon of 1979

    John C. Brock;Charles R. McClain;Mark E. Luther;William W. Hay

  • Recent trends in global ocean chlorophyll

    Watson W. Gregg;Nancy W. Casey;Charles R. McClain

  • Ocean color: Availability of the global data set

    Gene Feldman;Norman Kuring;Carolyn Ng;Wayne Esaias

  • The GEOTRACES Intermediate Data Product 2017

    Reiner Schlitzer;Robert F. Anderson;Elena Masferrer Dodas;Maeve Lohan

  • Regional to global assessments of phytoplankton dynamics from the SeaWiFS mission

    David Siegel;Michael Behrenfeld;Stephanie Maritorena;Charles R. McClain

  • Influence of penetrating solar radiation on the heat budget of the equatorial Pacific Ocean

    Marion R. Lewis;Mary-Elena Carr;Gene C. Feldman;Wayne Esaias

Frequent Co-Authors

Bryan A. Franz
Bryan A. Franz Goddard Space Flight Center
James R. Christian
James R. Christian Fisheries and Oceans Canada
Michael J. Behrenfeld
Michael J. Behrenfeld Oregon State University
P. Jeremy Werdell
P. Jeremy Werdell Goddard Space Flight Center
Stanford B. Hooker
Stanford B. Hooker Goddard Space Flight Center
James A. Yoder
James A. Yoder University of Rhode Island
Brent N. Holben
Brent N. Holben Goddard Space Flight Center
Menghua Wang
Menghua Wang National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration
Robert Frouin
Robert Frouin University of California, San Diego
Watson W. Gregg
Watson W. Gregg Goddard Space Flight Center

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