Fig. 9.

Average number of hours per day that a quality observation could theoretically be captured for ocean color water quality applications given climatological wind speed, sun glint, and an air mass fraction within 4.0 each month. Cloud interference was not considered in this analysis and has been previously reported by Feng et al. (2017), Mercury et al. (2012), and Schaeffer et al. (2022). Concentric pattern was a result of the 1-h model interval. Observation area was smaller than original field of regard because of 70° viewing angle cut off.