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ESA Ocean Colour Climate Change Initiative (Ocean_Colour_cci): Global attenuation coefficient for downwelling irradiance (Kd490) gridded on a geographic projection, Version 2.0

Latest Data Update: 2016-10-27
Status: Superseded
Online Status: ONLINE
Publication State: Published
Publication Date: 2016-12-12
Download Stats: last 12 months
Dataset Size: 8.08K Files | 584GB
This dataset has been superseded.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 the Version 2.0 Kd490 attenuation coefficient (m-1) for downwelling irradiance product on a geographic projection at approximately 4 km spatial resolution and at a number of time resolutions (daily, 5-day, 8-day and monthly composites). It is computed from the Ocean Colour CCI Version 2.0 inherent optical properties dataset at 490 nm and the solar zenith angle. Note, these data are also contained within 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).

Citable as:  Sathyendranath, S.; Groom, S.; Grant, M.; Brewin, R.J.W.; Thompson, A.; Chuprin, A.; Horseman, A.; Jackson, T.; Martinez Vicente, V.; Platt, T.; Brockmann, C.; Zühlke, M.; Doerffer, R.; Valente, A.; Brotas, V.; Krasemann, H.; Müller, D.; Dowell, M.; Mélin, F.; Swinton, J.; Farman, A.; Lavender, S.; Moore, T.S.; Regner, P.; Roy, S.; Steinmetz, F.; Mazeran, C.; Brando, V.E.; Taberner, M.; Antoine, D.; Arnone, R.; Balch, W.M.; Barker, K.; Barlow, R.; Bélanger, S.; Berthon, J.-F.; Beşiktepe, Ş.; Canuti, E.; Chavez, F.; Claustre, H.; Crout, R.; 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.; Feldman, G.; Franz, B.; Muller-Karger, F.; O'Dowd, L.; Ondrusek, M.; Poulton, A.J.; Repecaud, M.; Smyth, T.; Sosik, H.M.; Twardowski, M.; Voss, K.; Werdell, J.; Wernand, M.; Zibordi, G. (2016): ESA Ocean Colour Climate Change Initiative (Ocean_Colour_cci): Global attenuation coefficient for downwelling irradiance (Kd490) gridded on a geographic projection, Version 2.0. Centre for Environmental Data Analysis, date of citation. https://catalogue.ceda.ac.uk/uuid/49bcb6f29c824ae49e41d2d3656f11be
Abbreviation: Not defined
Keywords: ESA, CCI, Ocean Colour, Geographic

Details

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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:

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
File Format:
Data are in NetCDF format

Related Documents

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

Process overview

  • 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
  • long_name: Count of the number of observations from the SeaWiFS sensor contributing to this bin cell
  • var_id: SeaWiFS_nobs_sum
  • long_name: Count of the total number of observations contributing to this bin cell
  • var_id: total_nobs_sum
  • 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:
2013-12-31T23:59:59
Geographic Extent

 
90.0000°
  
-180.0000°
  
180.0000°
 
-90.0000°
  
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Authors (67)
Publishers (1)
Funders (1)