"Here's a stunning jaw-dropping website and image for those of you interested into some follow-up to observations and comment I posted way back, now cyber-years ago (8/10/97), regarding the eerie aqua-green water in Bristol Bay and the Bering Sea (Alaska) this summer and still currently present. The satellite image is best viewed in color as it is displayed in "real" color! http://seawifs.gsfc.nasa.gov/SEAWIFS/IMAGES/SEAWIFS_GALLERY.html Enter the website, then scroll down, find, and click on "Plankton Bloom in the Bering Sea". There are interesting links to other NASA images as well, e.g. the smoke plumes over Indonesia, upwellings off Cape Town, etc. . . Turns out this is a Coceolithophores phytoplankton bloom, apparently quite rare in the Bering, as I've been told, and more the result of localized solar heating of the sea surface water due to persistent High Pressure locked over the area in July, rather than just flat out ENSO (El Nino). This does not necessarily dismiss ENSO completely from perhaps being a contributing factor in the High Pressure anomaly from developing in the first place."--Richard Rowlett (Pagodroma@aol.com)