AUTHOR=Aigars Juris , Suhareva Natalija , Cepite-Frisfelde Daiga , Kokorite Ilga , Iital Arvo , Skudra Māris , Viska Maija TITLE=From green to brown: two decades of darkening coastal water in the Gulf of Riga, the Baltic Sea JOURNAL=Frontiers in Marine Science VOLUME=11 YEAR=2024 URL=https://www.frontiersin.org/journals/marine-science/articles/10.3389/fmars.2024.1369537 DOI=10.3389/fmars.2024.1369537 ISSN=2296-7745 ABSTRACT=
Over the past decades, changes in the light conditions of coastal waters, induced by darkening due to water browning, has been gaining momentum within the scientific community. Although there is a general agreement that the darkening of coastal water is caused by shifts in climatic conditions, the actual links between trends in light attenuation caused by water browning and drivers are still being debated, as causality relationships are often assessed through the use of indirect evidence. In this study, we employed algorithmically processed remote-sensing and modelled data with substantially higher resolution than