2011, MALSF, Marine Aggregates Levy Sustainability Fund (MALSF), Natural Variability of Turbidity in the Regional Environmental Assessment (REA) Areas

"This dataset was produced to quantify natural variability in Suspended Particulate Matter Concentrations (SPMC) in the Humber, East Coast, Thames, English Channel and South Coast Aggregate Regional Environmental Assessment Areas. The \'turbidity\' band of MODIS satellite data was used to produce climatologies of the inorganic (mineral) SPMC on a monthly basis. The dataset comprises statistical layers (raster) for the maximum (max), mean (mu) and standard deviation (sigma) statistics for each climatological month. The average number of data points for each cell is also included (n). The statistics are based on daily composite images from the period 1/7/2002 to 31/5/2010. "