MarQUEST: Monthly Inherent Optical Properties for 1998-2007 calculated from SeaWiFS/SeaStar Level 3 products

MarQUEST was led by Prof Andrew Watson (UEA), with 15 co-investigators at UEA/BAS, the Universities of Southampton, Essex, and Reading, and from the Plymouth Marine Laboratory and Proudman Oceanographic Laboratory.

This dataset contains monthly inherent optical absorption properties for 1998-2007 calculated from SeaWiFS/SeaStar Level 3 products.

QUEST scientists cooperated in comparing various models, and examining more fundamental (physiological) approaches to understanding the planktonic ecoystem. MarQUEST also developed a module to simulate coastal ecosystems, usable in global ocean biogeochemical simulations. Finally, the project team generated an accurate physical simulation of the North Atlantic guided by data assimilation, into which ecosystem simulations can be embedded. This allows the variation in air-sea fluxes of gases (CO2, oxygen and dimethyl sulphide) from ocean to atmosphere to be quantified for the contemporary period.

This data was produced by Takafumi Hirata, Plymouth Marine Laboratory, Plymouth, UK as part of NERC Programmes: Centre for the observation of Air-Sea Interaction and fluXes (CASIX), National Centre for Earth Observation (NCEO) and Quantifying and Understanding the Earth System (QUEST).

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Date (Publication)
2008-12-10T10:14:04
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2008-12-10T10:14:04
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https://catalogue.ceda.ac.uk/uuid/33421537b9dd476d911b8f184734bb90
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NCAS British Atmospheric Data Centre (NCAS BADC) / 33421537b9dd476d911b8f184734bb90
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  Unavailable - Hirata, Takafumi ( author )
Author
  Unavailable - Smyth, Timothy ( author )
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  NCAS British Atmospheric Data Centre (NCAS BADC) - custodian
British Atmospheric Data Centre , STFC Rutherford Appleton Laboratory , Harwell Oxford , OX11 0QX , UK
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  NCAS British Atmospheric Data Centre (NCAS BADC) - distributor
British Atmospheric Data Centre , STFC Rutherford Appleton Laboratory , Harwell Oxford , OX11 0QX , UK
+44(0)1235 446432
Principal investigator
  Natural Environment Research Council (NERC) - principal_investigator
Polaris House , North Star Avenue , Swindon , SN2 1EU , United Kingdom
01793 411500
Principal investigator
  Unavailable - Watson, Andrew ( principal_investigator )
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British Atmospheric Data Centre , STFC Rutherford Appleton Laboratory , Harwell Oxford , OX11 0QX , UK
+44(0)1235 446432
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  NCAS British Atmospheric Data Centre (NCAS BADC) - publisher
British Atmospheric Data Centre , STFC Rutherford Appleton Laboratory , Harwell Oxford , OX11 0QX , UK
+44(0)1235 446432
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  NERC Earth Observation Data Centre (NEODC) - publisher
NERC - Earth Observation Data Centre , STFC Rutherford Appleton Laboratory , Harwell Oxford , OX11 0QX , UK
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Keywords
  • QUEST
  • MarQUEST
  • Marine
  • ocean
  • biogeochemistry
  • model
GEMET - INSPIRE themes, version 1.0
  • atmospheric conditions
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  • Climatology, meteorology, atmosphere
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Begin date
1998-01-01T00:00:00
End date
2007-12-31T23:59:59
Unique resource identifier
WGS 84
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  • Data are netCDF formatted ()

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British Atmospheric Data Centre , STFC Rutherford Appleton Laboratory , Harwell Oxford , OX11 0QX , UK
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MarQUEST (Marine Biogeochemistry and Initiative in QUEST)

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SeaWIFS Project website

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Date (Publication)
2010-12-08
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OCCAM model data provided by Bablu Sinha at NOC. Plankton data from PML.
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MarQUEST (Marine Biogeochemistry and Initiative in QUEST): Ocean optical and plankton model measurements 2406ec006d9a38b9da6d381fd7c41a15
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2024-11-23T00:04:30
Metadata standard name
UK GEMINI
Metadata standard version
2.3
Point of contact
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British Atmospheric Data Centre , STFC Rutherford Appleton Laboratory , Harwell Oxford , OX11 0QX , UK
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