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ESA Ocean Colour Climate Change Initiative (Ocean_Colour_cci): Global ocean colour data products gridded on a geographic projection (All Products), Version 4.0

Update Frequency: As Needed
Latest Data Update: 2020-04-29
Status: Ongoing
Online Status: ONLINE
Publication State: Published
Publication Date: 2019-11-27
Download Stats: last 12 months
Dataset Size: 10.56K Files | 16TB
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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 all their Version 4.0 generated ocean colour products on a geographic projection at 4 km spatial resolution and at a number of time resolutions (daily, 5-day, 8-day and monthly composites). Data are also available as monthly climatologies.

Data products being produced include: phytoplankton chlorophyll-a concentration; remote-sensing reflectance at six wavelengths; total absorption and backscattering coefficients; phytoplankton absorption coefficient and absorption coefficients for dissolved and detrital material; and the diffuse attenuation coefficient for downwelling irradiance for light of wavelength 490nm. Information on uncertainties is also provided.

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.)

Citable as:  Sathyendranath, S.; Jackson, T.; Brockmann, C.; Brotas, V.; Calton, B.; Chuprin, A.; Clements, O.; Cipollini, P.; Danne, O.; Dingle, J.; Donlon, C.; Grant, M.; Groom, S.; Krasemann, H.; Lavender, S.; Mazeran, C.; Mélin, F.; Moore, T.S.; Müller, D.; Regner, P.; Steinmetz, F.; Steele, C.; Swinton, J.; Valente, A.; Zühlke, M.; Feldman, G.; Franz, B.; Frouin, R.; Werdell, J.; Platt, T. (2019): ESA Ocean Colour Climate Change Initiative (Ocean_Colour_cci): Global ocean colour data products gridded on a geographic projection (All Products), Version 4.0. Centre for Environmental Data Analysis, date of citation. https://catalogue.ceda.ac.uk/uuid/175105e9c36b49d7b98ebf43579c5cdd
Abbreviation: Not defined
Keywords: ESA, CCI, Ocean Colour, Geographic

Details

Previous Info:

2019-11-27 This dataset forms part of the v4.0 ocean colour dataset collection that can be cited with doi:10.5285/00b5fc99f9384782976a4453… Show More 2019-11-27 This dataset forms part of the v4.0 ocean colour dataset collection that can be cited with doi:10.5285/00b5fc99f9384782976a4453b0148f49
(http://dx.doi.org/10.5285/00b5fc99f9384782976a4453b0148f49) 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: http://licences.ceda.ac.uk/image/data_access_condition/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:

These data were 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 v4.0 ocean colour dataset collection that can be cited with the following DOI: 10.5285/00b5fc99f9384782976a4453b0148f49
Data Quality:
Data are as provided by the Ocean Colour CCI team. For details of validation see the linked Product User Guide and documentation on the Ocean Colour CCI website (https://climate.esa.int/en/projects/ocean-colour/)
File Format:
Data are in NetCDF format

Related Documents

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

Process overview

This dataset was generated by the computation detailed below.
Title

Derivation of Ocean Colour v4 data from the ESA Climate Change Initiative Ocean Colour project (Ocean_Colour_cci)
Abstract

The ocean colour CCI has calculated ocean colour Essential Climate Variable data, using input data from various satellite instruments, as part of the ESA Climate Change Initiative program.

The v4 dataset has been created by band-shifting and bias-correcting MERIS, MODIS and VIIRS data to
match SeaWiFS data, merging the datasets and computing per-pixel uncertainty estimates.

For more information see the Ocean Colour v4 Product User Guide.
Input Description

None
Output Description

None
Software Reference

None
  • units: m-1
  • long_name: Bias of absorption coefficient for dissolved and detrital material at 412 nm.
  • var_id: adg_412_bias
  • units: m-1
  • long_name: Bias of absorption coefficient for dissolved and detrital material at 443 nm.
  • var_id: adg_443_bias
  • units: m-1
  • long_name: Bias of absorption coefficient for dissolved and detrital material at 490 nm.
  • var_id: adg_490_bias
  • units: m-1
  • long_name: Bias of absorption coefficient for dissolved and detrital material at 510 nm.
  • var_id: adg_510_bias
  • units: m-1
  • long_name: Bias of absorption coefficient for dissolved and detrital material at 555 nm.
  • var_id: adg_555_bias
  • units: m-1
  • long_name: Bias of absorption coefficient for dissolved and detrital material at 670 nm.
  • var_id: adg_670_bias
  • long_name: Bias of log10-transformed chlorophyll-a concentration in seawater.
  • var_id: chlor_a_log10_bias
  • units: m-1
  • long_name: Bias of phytoplankton absorption coefficient at 412 nm.
  • var_id: aph_412_bias
  • units: m-1
  • long_name: Bias of phytoplankton absorption coefficient at 443 nm.
  • var_id: aph_443_bias
  • units: m-1
  • long_name: Bias of phytoplankton absorption coefficient at 490 nm.
  • var_id: aph_490_bias
  • units: m-1
  • long_name: Bias of phytoplankton absorption coefficient at 510 nm.
  • var_id: aph_510_bias
  • units: m-1
  • long_name: Bias of phytoplankton absorption coefficient at 555 nm.
  • var_id: aph_555_bias
  • units: m-1
  • long_name: Bias of phytoplankton absorption coefficient at 670 nm.
  • var_id: aph_670_bias
  • long_name: Count of the number of observations from the MERIS sensor contributing to this bin cell
  • var_id: MERIS_nobs_sum
  • var_id: MODISA_nobs_sum
  • long_name: Count of the number of observations from the MODIS (Aqua) sensor contributing to this bin cell
  • var_id: SeaWiFS_nobs
  • long_name: 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
  • long_name: Count of the total number of observations contributing to this bin cell
  • var_id: total_nobs_sum
  • var_id: water_class1
  • long_name: Mean of normalised water class 1 membership over the compositing period
  • var_id: water_class10
  • long_name: Mean of normalised water class 10 membership over the compositing period
  • var_id: water_class11
  • long_name: Mean of normalised water class 11 membership over the compositing period
  • var_id: water_class12
  • long_name: Mean of normalised water class 12 membership over the compositing period
  • var_id: water_class13
  • long_name: Mean of normalised water class 13 membership over the compositing period
  • var_id: water_class14
  • long_name: Mean of normalised water class 14 membership over the compositing period
  • var_id: water_class2
  • long_name: Mean of normalised water class 2 membership over the compositing period
  • var_id: water_class3
  • long_name: Mean of normalised water class 3 membership over the compositing period
  • var_id: water_class4
  • long_name: Mean of normalised water class 4 membership over the compositing period
  • var_id: water_class5
  • long_name: Mean of normalised water class 5 membership over the compositing period
  • var_id: water_class6
  • long_name: Mean of normalised water class 6 membership over the compositing period
  • var_id: water_class7
  • long_name: Mean of normalised water class 7 membership over the compositing period
  • var_id: water_class8
  • long_name: Mean of normalised water class 8 membership over the compositing period
  • var_id: water_class9
  • long_name: Mean of normalised water class 9 membership over the compositing period
  • long_name: Root-mean-square-difference of log10-transformed chlorophyll-a concentration in seawater.
  • var_id: chlor_a_log10_rmsd
  • units: m-1
  • long_name: Root-mean-square-difference of phytoplankton absorption coefficient at 412 nm.
  • var_id: aph_412_rmsd
  • units: m-1
  • long_name: Root-mean-square-difference of phytoplankton absorption coefficient at 443 nm.
  • var_id: aph_443_rmsd
  • units: m-1
  • long_name: Root-mean-square-difference of phytoplankton absorption coefficient at 490 nm.
  • var_id: aph_490_rmsd
  • units: m-1
  • long_name: Root-mean-square-difference of phytoplankton absorption coefficient at 510 nm.
  • var_id: aph_510_rmsd
  • units: m-1
  • long_name: Root-mean-square-difference of phytoplankton absorption coefficient at 555 nm.
  • var_id: aph_555_rmsd
  • units: m-1
  • long_name: Root-mean-square-difference of phytoplankton absorption coefficient at 670 nm.
  • var_id: aph_670_rmsd
  • var_id: crs

Co-ordinate Variables

  • units: degrees_north
  • standard_name: latitude
  • long_name: latitude
  • var_id: lat
  • units: degrees_east
  • standard_name: longitude
  • long_name: longitude
  • var_id: lon
  • standard_name: time
  • var_id: time
Coverage
Temporal Range
Start time:
1997-09-03T23:00:00
End time:
2018-12-31T23:59:59
Geographic Extent

 
90.0000°
  
-180.0000°
  
180.0000°
 
-90.0000°
  
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