Sites' environmental data

The environmental satellite variables of chlorophyll-a (mg m^-3; Chlo-a), Particulate Inorganic Carbon (mol m^-3; PIC), Particulate Organic Carbon (mg m^-3; POC), Photosynthetically Available Radiation (Einstein m^-2 d^-1; PAR) and Sea Surface Temperature (°C; SST) were obtained from Aqua MODIS-Aqua Level-3 products, with a daily time scale and a spatial resolution of 4 km (NASA Goddard Space Flight Center 2023). For each site and date (referred to as points), variable values were extracted using Quantum GIS (QGIS) v.3.16.16 (QGIS Development Team 2023). When the points had null data, interpolation on the raster imagery edge was estimated, based on the QGIS tool "Fill no data," which uses inverse distance weighting, with ten pixels as the maximum distance.