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Dataset

 

ESA Ocean Colour Climate Change Initiative (Ocean_Colour_cci): Global remote sensing reflectance gridded on a geographic projection, Version 2.0

Latest Data Update: 2019-03-22
Status: Superseded
Online Status: ONLINE
Publication State: Published
Publication Date: 2016-12-12
Download Stats: last 12 months
Dataset Size: 8.09K Files | 5TB

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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 the Version 2.0 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). 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).

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 remote sensing reflectance gridded on a geographic projection, Version 2.0. Centre for Environmental Data Analysis, date of citation. https://catalogue.ceda.ac.uk/uuid/aaf1d54282e94d5483356521f1b76434
Abbreviation: Not defined
Keywords: ESA, CCI, Ocean Colour, Geographic, Reflectance

Details

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Previously used record 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: 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

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: water_class10
  • long_name: Mean of normalised water class 0 membership over the compositing period
  • long_name: Mean of normalised water class 1 membership over the compositing period
  • var_id: water_class11
  • 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
  • long_name: Mean of normalised water class 2 membership over the compositing period
  • var_id: water_class12
  • long_name: Mean of normalised water class 3 membership over the compositing period
  • var_id: water_class13
  • long_name: Mean of normalised water class 4 membership over the compositing period
  • var_id: water_class14
  • 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
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°