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(3)  Wenlong Xu; Guifen Wang; Xuhua Cheng; Xiaogang Xing; Jianhuang Qin; Guidi Zhou; Long Jiang; Bingzhang Chen ; Mesoscale Eddy Modulation of Subsurface Chlorophyll Maximum Layers in the South China Sea, Journal of Geophysical Research: Biogeosciences, 2023, 128(11)

(4)  Wenlong Xu; Guifen Wang; Xuhua Cheng; Long Jiang; Wen Zhou; Wenxi Cao; Characteristics of subsurface chlorophyll maxima during the boreal summer in the South China Sea with respect to environmental properties, Science of The Total Environment, 2022, 820: 153243 

(5)  Xu, Wenlong; Wang, Guifen; Jiang, Long; Cheng, Xuhua; Zhou, Wen; Cao, Wenxi; Spatiotemporal Variability of Surface Phytoplankton Carbon and Carbon-to-Chlorophyll a Ratio in the South China Sea Based on Satellite Data, Remote Sensing, 2021, 13(1) 

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(12) Deng, L.; Zhou, W.; Cao, W.; Wang, G.; Zheng, W.; Xu, Z.; Li, C.; Yang, Y.; Xu, W.; Zeng, K., Hu, S. Evaluating semi-analytical algorithms for estimating inherent optical properties in the South China Sea, Optical Express, 2020, 28, 13155-13176

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(15) Wang, G.; Xu, W.; Zhou, W.; Xu, Z.; Cao, W. Retrieving phytoplankton size class from hyperspectral particulate absorption data measured by the ship-based underway flow-through system. Journal of Tropical Oceanography, 2018, 37, 5 (in Chinese) 

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