Dataset
ESA Ocean Colour Climate Change Initiative (Ocean_Colour_cci): Global remote sensing reflectance gridded on a geographic projection, Version 5.0
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 5.0 Remote Sensing Reflectance 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) covering the period 1997 - 2020. Values for remote sensing reflectance at the sea surface are provided for the standard SeaWiFS wavelengths (412, 443, 490, 510, 555, 670nm) with pixel-by-pixel uncertainty estimates for each wavelength. These are merged products based on SeaWiFS, MERIS and Aqua-MODIS data. Note, this dataset is 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).
Please note, data from December 2020 onwards are affected by an anomaly discovered after production and resulting in a spurious jump in remote sensing reflectance. The anomaly has been corrected in the version 5.0.1 of the dataset available through the Copernicus Climate Change Service (https://doi.org/10.24381/cds.f85b319d)
Version 6.0 of this data is now also available here: https://doi.org/10.5285/5011d22aae5a4671b0cbc7d05c56c4f0
Details
| Previous Info: |
2023-08-08
Please note, data from December 2020 onwards are affected by an anomaly discovered after production and resulting in a spurious…
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2023-08-08
Please note, data from December 2020 onwards are affected by an anomaly discovered after production and resulting in a spurious jump in remote sensing reflectance. The anomaly has been corrected in the version 5.0.1 of the dataset available through the Copernicus Climate Change Service (https://doi.org/10.24381/cds.f85b319d). 2021-05-19 This dataset forms part of the v5.0 ocean colour dataset collection that can be cited with the doi: 10.5285/1dbe7a109c0244aaad7… Show More 2021-05-19 This dataset forms part of the v5.0 ocean colour dataset collection that can be cited with the doi: 10.5285/1dbe7a109c0244aaad713e078fd3059a Show Less |
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| Previously used record identifiers: |
No related previous identifiers.
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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(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: |
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. |
| 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/)
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| File Format: |
Data are netCDF formatted.
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Process overview
| Title | Derivation of Ocean Colour v5 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. For more information see the Ocean Colour v5 Product User Guide. |
| Input Description | None |
| Output Description | None |
| Software Reference | None |
- 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 OLCI sensor contributing to this bin cell
- var_id: OLCI_nobs_sum
- 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
- 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
Temporal Range
1997-09-04T00:00:00
2020-12-31T23:59:59
Geographic Extent
90.0000° |
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-180.0000° |
180.0000° |
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-90.0000° |