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ESA Ocean Colour Climate Change Initiative (Ocean_Colour_cci): Global chlorophyll-a data products gridded on a geographic projection, Version 3.1

Update Frequency: Not Planned
Latest Data Update: 2018-05-30
Status: Superseded
Online Status: ONLINE
Publication State: Published
Publication Date: 2018-06-25
Download Stats: last 12 months
Dataset Size: 9.57K Files | 870GB
This dataset has been superseded. See Latest Version here
Abstract

The ESA Ocean Colour CCI project has produced global level 3 binned multi-sensor time-series of satellite ocean-colour data with a particular focus for use in climate studies.

This dataset contains their Version 3.1 chlorophyll-a product (in mg/m3) on a geographic projection at 4 km spatial resolution and at number of time resolutions (daily, 5day, 8day and monthly composites). Note, this chlor_a data is also included in the 'All Products' dataset.

This data product is on a geographic grid projection, which is a direct conversion of latitude and longitude coordinates to a rectangular grid, typically a fixed multiplier of 360x180. The netCDF files follow the CF convention for this projection with a resolution of 8640x4320. (A separate dataset is also available for data on a sinusoidal projection.)

Please note, this dataset has been superseded. Later versions of the data are now available.

Citable as:  Sathyendranath, S.; Grant, M.; Brewin, R.J.W.; Brockmann, C.; Brotas, V.; Chuprin, A.; Doerffer, R.; Dowell, M.; Farman, A.; Groom, S.; Jackson, T.; Krasemann, H.; Lavender, S.; Martinez Vicente, V.; Mazeran, C.; Mélin, F.; Moore, T.S.; Müller, D.; Platt, T.; Regner, P.; Roy, S.; Steinmetz, F.; Swinton, J.; Valente, A.; Zühlke, M.; Antoine, D.; Arnone, R.; Balch, W.M.; Barker, K.; Barlow, R.; Bélanger, S.; Berthon, J.-F.; Beşiktepe, Ş.; Brando, V.E.; Canuti, E.; Chavez, F.; Claustre, H.; Crout, R.; Feldman, G.; Franz, B.; Frouin, R.; García-Soto, C.; Gibb, S.W.; Gould, R.; Hooker, S.; Kahru, M.; Klein, H.; Kratzer, S.; Loisel, H.; McKee, D.; Mitchell, B.G.; Moisan, T.; Muller-Karger, F.; O'Dowd, L.; Ondrusek, M.; Poulton, A.J.; Repecaud, M.; Smyth, T.; Sosik, H.M.; Taberner, M.; Twardowski, M.; Voss, K.; Werdell, J.; Wernand, M.; Zibordi, G. (2018): ESA Ocean Colour Climate Change Initiative (Ocean_Colour_cci): Global chlorophyll-a data products gridded on a geographic projection, Version 3.1. Centre for Environmental Data Analysis, date of citation. https://catalogue.ceda.ac.uk/uuid/12d6f4bdabe144d7836b0807e65aa0e2/
Abbreviation: Not defined
Keywords: ESA, CCI, Ocean Colour, Geographic

Details

Previous Info:

2018-07-04 This dataset forms part of the v3.1 ocean colour dataset collection that can be cited with doi:10.5285/9c334fbe6d424a708cf3c4cf… Show More 2018-07-04 This dataset forms part of the v3.1 ocean colour dataset collection that can be cited with doi:10.5285/9c334fbe6d424a708cf3c4cf0c6a53f5
(http://dx.doi.org/10.5285/9c334fbe6d424a708cf3c4cf0c6a53f5) Show Less

Previously used record identifiers:
No related previous identifiers.
Access rules:
Public data: access to these data is available to both registered and non-registered users.
Use of these data is covered by the following licence(s):
https://artefacts.ceda.ac.uk/licences/specific_licences/esacci_oc_terms_and_conditions.pdf
When using these data you must cite them correctly using the citation given on the CEDA Data Catalogue record.
Data lineage:

This data has been produced by the ESA Ocean Colour CCI project and provided to CEDA in the context of the ESA CCI Open Data Portal project.
This dataset forms part of the v3.1 ocean colour dataset collection that can be cited with doi:10.5285/9c334fbe6d424a708cf3c4cf0c6a53f5
(http://dx.doi.org/10.5285/9c334fbe6d424a708cf3c4cf0c6a53f5)
Data Quality:
CCI data format checked
File Format:
Data are in NetCDF format

Related Documents

 Product User Guide
 ESA Climate Change Initiative website
 ESA CCI Ocean Colour project website
 Lavender, S. et al, 'The Ocean Colour Climate Change Initiative',Ocean Challenge, Vol.21, No.1, 2015

Process overview

  • long_name: Bias of log10-transformed chlorophyll-a concentration in seawater.
  • var_id: chlor_a_log10_bias
  • names: Bias of log10-transformed chlorophyll-a concentration in seawater.
  • units: milligram m-3
  • standard_name: mass_concentration_of_chlorophyll_a_in_sea_water
  • var_id: chlor_a
  • long_name: Chlorophyll-a concentration in seawater (not log-transformed), generated by SeaDAS using a blended combination of OCI (OC4v6 + Hu's CI), OC3 and OC5, depending on water class memberships
  • names: mass_concentration_of_chlorophyll_a_in_sea_water, Chlorophyll-a concentration in seawater (not log-transformed), generated by SeaDAS using a blended combination of OCI (OC4v6 + Hu's CI), OC3 and OC5, depending on water class memberships
  • long_name: Count of the number of observations from the MERIS sensor contributing to this bin cell
  • var_id: MERIS_nobs_sum
  • names: Count of the number of observations from the MERIS sensor contributing to this bin cell
  • var_id: MODISA_nobs_sum
  • long_name: Count of the number of observations from the MODIS (Aqua) sensor contributing to this bin cell
  • names: Count of the number of observations from the MODIS (Aqua) sensor contributing to this bin cell
  • var_id: SeaWiFS_nobs_sum
  • long_name: Count of the number of observations from the SeaWiFS (GAC and LAC) sensor contributing to this bin cell
  • names: Count of the number of observations from the SeaWiFS (GAC and LAC) sensor contributing to this bin cell
  • long_name: Count of the number of observations from the VIIRS sensor contributing to this bin cell
  • var_id: VIIRS_nobs_sum
  • names: Count of the number of observations from the VIIRS sensor contributing to this bin cell
  • long_name: Count of the total number of observations contributing to this bin cell
  • var_id: total_nobs_sum
  • names: Count of the total number of observations contributing to this bin cell
  • long_name: Root-mean-square-difference of log10-transformed chlorophyll-a concentration in seawater.
  • var_id: chlor_a_log10_rmsd
  • names: Root-mean-square-difference of log10-transformed chlorophyll-a concentration in seawater.
  • var_id: crs

Co-ordinate Variables

  • units: degrees_north
  • standard_name: latitude
  • long_name: latitude
  • var_id: lat
  • names: latitude
  • units: degrees_east
  • standard_name: longitude
  • long_name: longitude
  • var_id: lon
  • names: longitude
  • standard_name: time
  • var_id: time
  • names: time
Coverage
Temporal Range
Start time:
1997-09-03T23:00:00
End time:
2016-12-31T23:59:59
Geographic Extent

 
90.0000°
  
-180.0000°
  
180.0000°
 
-90.0000°
  
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Authors (65)
Publishers (1)
Funders (1)