Dataset
ESA Ocean Colour Climate Change Initiative (Ocean_Colour_cci): Global chlorophyll-a data products gridded on a sinusoidal projection, Version 4.2
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 4.2 chlorophyll-a product (in mg/m3) on a sinusoidal projection at 4 km spatial resolution and at a number of time resolutions (daily, 5-day, 8-day and monthly composites). Note, the chlorophyll-a data are also included in the 'All Products' dataset.
This data product is on a sinusoidal equal-area grid projection, matching the NASA standard level 3 binned projection. The default number of latitude rows is 4320, which results in a vertical bin cell size of approximately 4 km. The number of longitude columns varies according to the latitude, which permits the equal area property. Unlike the NASA format, where the bin cells that do not contain any data are omitted, the CCI format retains all cells and simply marks empty cells with a NetCDF fill value. (A separate dataset is also available for data on a geographic projection.)
Please note, this dataset has been superseded. Later versions of the data are now available.
Details
| Previous Info: |
2021-05-19 This dataset forms part of the v4.2 ocean colour dataset collection that can be cited with the doi: 10.5285/d62f7f801cb54c749d2… Show More 2021-05-19 This dataset forms part of the v4.2 ocean colour dataset collection that can be cited with the doi: 10.5285/d62f7f801cb54c749d20e736d4a1039 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 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 For more information see the Ocean Colour v4 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
- 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
- var_id: lat
- names: latitude
- units: degrees_east
- standard_name: longitude
- var_id: lon
- names: longitude
- standard_name: time
- var_id: time
- names: time
Temporal Range
1997-09-03T00:00:00
2019-12-31T23:59:59
Geographic Extent
90.0000° |
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-180.0000° |
180.0000° |
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-90.0000° |