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Oceanography of Coastal Alabama research program, 
which is funded by the Alabama Department of Con- 
servation and Natural Resources, Marine Resources Di- 
vision, were used to provide ground truth for remotely 
sensed data from NASA’s Sea-viewing Wide Field-of- 
view Sensor (SeaWifs) Project. We wish to thank T. 
Henwood and E. Hoffmayer from the National Marine 
Fisheries Service for constructive comments that im- 
proved this manuscript. 
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