Ocean productivity

Ocean Colour Climate Change Initiative (OC–CCI)

The Ocean Colour CCI (OC_CCI) project (https://esa-oceancolour-cci.org/) focuses on the Ocean Colour ECV encompassing water-leaving radiance in the visible domain, derived chlorophyll and inherent optical properties and uses data archives of from ESA’s MERIS and NASA’s SeaWiFS, MODIS and possibly CZCS sensors archives.

Figure 12 from Melin et al. (2017)

The products are available in two projections: sinusoidal and geographic.

Rrs values are provided for the standard SeaWiFS wavelengths (412, 443, 490, 510, 555, 670nm) with pixel-by-pixel uncertainty estimates for each wavelength.

The OC-CCI product includes inherent optical properties (IOP): the total absorption and particle backscattering coefficients, and, additionally, the fraction of detrital & dissolved organic matter absorption (adg) and phytoplankton absorption (aph).

For supporting documentation browse the documention and references posted on the Ocean Colour–CCI website.

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Available formats:

.nc

binary

ascii

Published:

Published

Availability:

Public

Gridded:

Yes

Time range:

Spatial depth:

Surface

Spatial resolution:

~4 km/pixel

Temporal climatology:

Data types:

Derived

Data temporal period:

Historical

Data temporal resolution:

Daily

Spatial coverage:

Global

Regional

Variables:

attenuation coefficient for downwelling irradiance

cholorphyll-a

remote sensing reflectance spectra

References:

Melin, F., Vantrepotte, V., Chuprin, A., Grant, M., Jackson, T., & Sathyendranath, S. (2017). Assessing the fitness-for- purpose of satellite multi-mission ocean color climate data records: A protocol applied to OC-CCI chlorophyll-a data. Remote Sensing of Environment, 203, 139–151

Reference data

Ocean Colour Climate Change Initiative (OC–CCI)

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