CEDA Metadata Catalogue
ESA Ocean Colour Climate Change Initiative (Ocean_Colour_cci): Global dataset of inherent optical properties (IOP) gridded on a sinusoidal projection, Version 2.0
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 2.0 inherent optical properties (IOP) product (in mg/m3) on a sinusoidal projection at approximately 4 km spatial resolution and at a number of time resolutions (daily, 5-day, 8-day and monthly composites). Note, the IOP data are also included in the 'All Products' dataset.
The inherent optical properties (IOP) dataset consists of the total absorption and particle backscattering coefficients, and, additionally, the fraction of detrital & dissolved organic matter absorption and phytoplankton absorption. The total absorption (units m-1), the total backscattering (m-1), the absorption by detrital and coloured dissolved organic matter, the backscattering by particulate matter, and the absorption by phytoplankton share the same spatial resolution of ~4 km. The values of IOP are reported for the standard SeaWiFS wavelengths (412, 443, 490, 510, 555, 670nm).
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.)
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- Date (Publication)
- 2016-12-12T17:01:30
- Date (Creation)
- 2016-12-12T17:01:30
- Identifier
- Centre for Environmental Data Analysis (CEDA) / b70578ae62b745ec9dc2ba42d2ee1311
- Maintenance and update frequency
- Unknown
- Update scope
- Dataset
- Keywords
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- Environmental Satellite
- EOS
- Plymouth Marine Laboratory
- Level 3S
- Aqua
- Level 3
- Envisat
- MERGED
- day
- ocean colour
- MODIS
- MERIS
- Orbview-2
- inherent optical properties
- SeaWiFS
- 8 days
- month
- Orbview-2
- Sea-viewing Wide Field-of-view Sensor - SeaWiFS
- Medium-Spectral Resolution, Imaging Spectrometer
- Moderate Resolution Imaging Spectroradiometer
- inherent optical properties
- 8 days
- day
- month
- Plymouth Marine Laboratory
- Aqua
- Envisat
- Orbview-2
- Environmental Satellite
- EOS
- Orbview-2
- Level 3
- Level 3S
- MERGED
- MERIS
- MODIS
- SeaWiFS
- ocean colour
- ESA
- CCI
- Ocean Colour
- Sinusoidal
- GEMET - INSPIRE themes, version 1.0
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- orthoimagery
- Access constraints
- Other restrictions
- Other constraints
- Public data: access to these data is available to both registered and non-registered users.
- Use constraints
- Other restrictions
- Spatial representation type
- Grid
- Metadata language
- English
- Topic category
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- Imagery base maps earth cover
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- Begin date
- 1997-09-03T23:00:00
- End date
- 2013-12-31T23:59:59
- Unique resource identifier
- WGS 84
- Distribution format
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Data are in NetCDF
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Data are in NetCDF
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- OnLine resource
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CEDA Data Catalogue Page
Detail and access information for the resource
- OnLine resource
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DOWNLOAD
Download Data
- OnLine resource
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Product User Guide
No further details.
- OnLine resource
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ESA Climate Change Initiative website
No further details.
- OnLine resource
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Lavender, S. et al, 'The Ocean Colour Climate Change Initiative',Ocean Challenge, Vol.21, No.1, 2015
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- OnLine resource
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ESA CCI Ocean Colour project website
No further details.
- Hierarchy level
- Dataset
Conformance result
- Date (Publication)
- 2010-12-08
- Statement
- 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 identifier
- b70578ae62b745ec9dc2ba42d2ee1311 XML
- Metadata language
- English
- Character set
- UTF8
- Hierarchy level
- Dataset
- Date stamp
- 2024-08-07T23:05:10
- Metadata standard name
- UK GEMINI
- Metadata standard version
- 2.3
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