already impacting the modern ocean. To recognize changes and predict the future ocean, ocean color (OC) remote sensing aims at quantifying and monitoring optically active oceanic constituents such as phytoplankton [...] 2.2 Ocean color remote sensing 2.2 Ocean color remote sensing Ocean color (OC) remote sensing (Mobley, 1994; Mobley et al., 2021) refers to the dis- cipline that infers information on the ocean from optical [...] c CO2 was taken up by the ocean (Friedlingstein et al., 2019). As a consequence, the ocean is warming, sea levels are rising, sea ice concentrations are declining, and ocean acidity is enhancing (IPCC