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Satellite-based assessment of marine environmental indicators and their variability in the South Pacific Island regions: A national-scale perspective. <i>Remote Sens. 18(1)</i>: 165. <a href=\"https://dx.doi.org/10.3390/rs18010165\" target=\"_blank\">https://dx.doi.org/10.3390/rs18010165</a>","BEntID":435189,"PublicFlag":1,"CheckedFlag":0,"wosflag":1,"vabbflag":1,"RefStringPartII":". <i>Remote Sens. 18(1)</i>: 165. <a href=\"https://dx.doi.org/10.3390/rs18010165\" target=\"_blank\">https://dx.doi.org/10.3390/rs18010165</a>","DocTypID":8,"DocType":"Journal article","MarineFlag":0,"FreshFlag":0,"BrackishFlag":0,"TerrestrialFlag":0,"Authorstring":"Hu, Q.; Liu, T.; Bai, Y.; He, X.; Chen, X.; Chen, L.; Huang, X.; Huang, M.; Wang, D.","OrigTitleTranslFlag":0,"Authorstringtrunc":"Hu, Q. <i>et al.</i>","Englishabstract":"The marine environment in the South Pacific Island Countries (SPICs) is sensitive and vulnerable to climate change. While large-scale changes in this region are well-documented, national-scale analyses that address management needs remain limited. This study evaluated the performance of satellite-derived datasets—including sea surface temperature (SST), sea surface salinity (SSS), Secchi disk depth (SDD), chlorophyll-a (Chl-a), net primary production (NPP), and sea level anomaly (SLA)—against in situ observations, and analyzed their spatial and temporal variability across 12 national Exclusive Economic Zones (EEZs) during 1998–2023. Validation results presented that current satellite datasets could provide applicable information for EEZ-scale analyses. In the past decades, the SPICs experienced a general increase in SST and SLA, accompanied by marked within-EEZ heterogeneity in Chl-a and NPP variations, with Papua New Guinea exhibiting the largest within-EEZ inter-annual variability. 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