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Why the Pacific Ocean is green and is not blue?
The Pacific waters are dark blue because of the much deeper inshore/coastal Pacific Ocean waters – than shallow inshore east coast Atlantic waters. So the water color green or dark blue – is about water depth and also the quantity of very small marine life in the water.
Why is some ocean water blue and some green?
Why are some seas blue and others green? Oceans appear blue because the sunlight scatters across the molecules. Light from the sun is made up of a spectrum of different wavelengths. The longer wavelengths appear to our eyes as the reds and oranges, while the shorter ones appear blue and green.
Why does some ocean water look green?
What color is YOUR ocean? When the water looks especially green, it means there are a lot of microscopic algae (called phytoplankton) growing near the surface. Phytoplankton get energy from sunlight, just like plants do. Phytoplankton blooms commonly occur in the spring, when the days being to lengthen.
Is the Pacific Ocean green?
The Pacific Ocean contains some of the most deep blue colored waters in the world.
Is the Atlantic ocean green or blue?
The ocean is blue because water absorbs colors in the red part of the light spectrum. Like a filter, this leaves behind colors in the blue part of the light spectrum for us to see. The ocean may also take on green, red, or other hues as light bounces off of floating sediments and particles in the water.
Why is Atlantic ocean not clear?
Nearly the entire volume of the Atlantic Ocean water is clear and essentially colorless (as is true of all oceans). In large areas, with the sun beaming down, it tends to look blue, due to the blue part of the sun’s spectrum being scattered back out while the red end of the spectrum tends to be absorbed.
What color Is Atlantic ocean?
blue
The reason the ocean is blue is due to the absorption and scattering of light. The blue wavelengths of light are scattered, similar to the scattering of blue light in the sky but absorption is a much larger factor than scattering for the clear ocean water.
Why does the Atlantic ocean look dirty?
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 organic matter muddy the metaphorical waters and cause oceans to appear green, red, or brown.
Why is the Bahamas water so blue?
The blue color of the ocean comes from the absorption of red and green light wavelengths by the water. The blue is reflected to be received by your eyes and the light blue is a response to sunlight reflecting off the powdery white sands and corals on the bottom.
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