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MarQUEST: Phytoplankton Size Class (Micro, Nano, Pico) for 1998-2007 estimated 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 climatology and monthly measurements of phytoplankton Size Class from the SeaWiFS/SeaStar 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)
- 2014-09-21T20:53:24
- Date (Creation)
- 2014-09-21T20:53:24
- Identifier
- NCAS British Atmospheric Data Centre (NCAS BADC) / 02f6ef21247f465fe14b5cb5246c255c
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- dataset Dataset
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- QUEST
- MarQUEST
- CASIX
- Marine
- ocean
- biogeochemistry
- model
- GEMET - INSPIRE themes, version 1.0
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- atmospheric conditions
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- Access to these data is available to any registered CEDA user. Please Login or Register for a CEDA account to gain access.
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- Spatial representation type
- grid Grid
- Metadata language
- EnglishEnglish
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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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Data are netCDF formatted
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MarQUEST (Marine Biogeochemistry and Initiative in QUEST)
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QUEST report
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SeaWIFS Project website
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CASIX web site
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- dataset Dataset
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- Date (Publication)
- 2010-12-08
- Statement
- OCCAM model data provided by Bablu Sinha at NOC. Plankton data from PML.
- File identifier
- 02f6ef21247f465fe14b5cb5246c255c XML
- Metadata language
- EnglishEnglish
- Character set
- 8-bit variable size UCS Transfer Format, based on ISO/IEC 10646 UTF8
- Parent identifier
- MarQUEST (Marine Biogeochemistry and Initiative in QUEST): Ocean optical and plankton model measurements 2406ec006d9a38b9da6d381fd7c41a15
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- dataset Dataset
- Date stamp
- 2025-05-09T02:25:39
- Metadata standard name
- UK GEMINI
- Metadata standard version
- 2.3
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