Dataset
ESA Ocean Colour Climate Change Initiative (Ocean_Colour_cci): Monthly climatology of global ocean colour data products, 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 a monthly climatology of the generated ocean colour products covering the period 1997 - 2020.
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.
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: Bias of log10-transformed chlorophyll-a concentration in seawater.
- var_id: chlor_a_log10_bias
- units: sr-1
- long_name: Bias of sea surface reflectance defined as the ratio of water-leaving radiance to surface irradiance at 412 nm.
- var_id: Rrs_412_bias
- units: sr-1
- long_name: Bias of sea surface reflectance defined as the ratio of water-leaving radiance to surface irradiance at 443 nm.
- var_id: Rrs_443_bias
- units: sr-1
- long_name: Bias of sea surface reflectance defined as the ratio of water-leaving radiance to surface irradiance at 490 nm.
- var_id: Rrs_490_bias
- units: sr-1
- long_name: Bias of sea surface reflectance defined as the ratio of water-leaving radiance to surface irradiance at 510 nm.
- var_id: Rrs_510_bias
- units: sr-1
- var_id: Rrs_560_bias
- long_name: Bias of sea surface reflectance defined as the ratio of water-leaving radiance to surface irradiance at 560 nm.
- units: sr-1
- var_id: Rrs_665_bias
- long_name: Bias of sea surface reflectance defined as the ratio of water-leaving radiance to surface irradiance at 665 nm.
- long_name: Root-mean-square-difference of log10-transformed chlorophyll-a concentration in seawater.
- var_id: chlor_a_log10_rmsd
- units: sr-1
- long_name: Root-mean-square-difference of sea surface reflectance defined as the ratio of water-leaving radiance to surface irradiance at 412 nm.
- var_id: Rrs_412_rmsd
- units: sr-1
- long_name: Root-mean-square-difference of sea surface reflectance defined as the ratio of water-leaving radiance to surface irradiance at 443 nm.
- var_id: Rrs_443_rmsd
- units: sr-1
- long_name: Root-mean-square-difference of sea surface reflectance defined as the ratio of water-leaving radiance to surface irradiance at 490 nm.
- var_id: Rrs_490_rmsd
- units: sr-1
- long_name: Root-mean-square-difference of sea surface reflectance defined as the ratio of water-leaving radiance to surface irradiance at 510 nm.
- var_id: Rrs_510_rmsd
- units: sr-1
- var_id: Rrs_560_rmsd
- long_name: Root-mean-square-difference of sea surface reflectance defined as the ratio of water-leaving radiance to surface irradiance at 560 nm.
- units: sr-1
- var_id: Rrs_665_rmsd
- long_name: Root-mean-square-difference of sea surface reflectance defined as the ratio of water-leaving radiance to surface irradiance at 665 nm.
- 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° |