299b1bb28eaa440f9a36e9786adfe398 English 8-bit variable size UCS Transfer Format, based on ISO/IEC 10646 dataset NERC EDS Centre for Environmental Data Analysis 01235446432 RAL Space STFC Rutherford Appleton Laboratory, Harwell Campus Didcot OX11 0QX United Kingdom support@ceda.ac.uk pointOfContact 2026-05-06T02:23:52 UK GEMINI 2.3 WGS 84 BICEP/NCEO: Monthly global Particulate Organic Carbon (POC), between 1997-2020 at 4 km resolution (produced from the Ocean Colour Climate Change Initiative v4.2 dataset), version 2 2021-12-21T14:45:49 publication 2021-12-21T14:45:49 creation https://catalogue.ceda.ac.uk/uuid/299b1bb28eaa440f9a36e9786adfe398 299b1bb28eaa440f9a36e9786adfe398 NERC EDS Centre for Environmental Data Analysis 10.5285/299b1bb28eaa440f9a36e9786adfe398 doi The BICEP/NCEO: Monthly global Particulate Organic Carbon (POC) v4.2 datasets contain POC concentrations (mg m^-3) with per pixel uncertainties estimates gridded on both geographic and sinusoidal projections at 4 km spatial resolution for the period of 1997 to 2020. The POC products were generated as part of the European Space Agency (ESA) Biological Pump and Carbon Exchange Processes (BICEP) project with support from the National Centre of Earth Observation (NCEO). The POC concentrations were estimated using an empirical Remote Sensing Reflectance (Rrs) band ratio algorithm by Stramski et al. (2008): 203.2*Rrs(443)/Rrs(555)^-1.034. This algorithm has shown a relatively good performance in the recent global inter-comparison study conducted by Evers-King et al. (2017). Additional variables that were used for the calculation of the POC products are also provided in the datasets, including the Rrs at 443 nm and 555 nm obtained from the ESA Ocean Colour Climate Change Initiative version 4.2 dataset (OC-CCI v4.2)(Sathyendranath et al., 2020). In addition to the papers by Stramski et al. (2008) and Evers-king et al. (2017), for more details on the algorithm and its validation, please see the BICEP Algorithm Theoretical Basis Document (ATBD) and validation report (https://bicep-project.org/Home). This version of the dataset is an updated version of the previous 'NCEO: Monthly global Particulate Organic Carbon (POC) (produced from the Ocean Colour Climate Change Initiative, Version 4.2 dataset)'. A related product based on the Ocean Colour Climate Change Initiative v5.0 data is also available (see the link in the related records section). Sathyendranath, Shubha Unavailable author Unavailable author Kong, Christina Eunjin Unavailable author Unavailable author Jackson, Thomas Unavailable author Unavailable author NERC EDS Centre for Environmental Data Analysis custodian 01235446432 RAL Space STFC Rutherford Appleton Laboratory, Harwell Campus Didcot OX11 0QX United Kingdom support@ceda.ac.uk custodian NERC EDS Centre for Environmental Data Analysis distributor 01235446432 RAL Space STFC Rutherford Appleton Laboratory, Harwell Campus Didcot OX11 0QX United Kingdom support@ceda.ac.uk distributor Natural Environment Research Council (NERC) principal_investigator 01793 411500 Polaris House North Star Avenue Swindon SN2 1EU United Kingdom unknown principalInvestigator Sathyendranath, Shubha Unavailable principal_investigator Unavailable principalInvestigator NERC EDS Centre for Environmental Data Analysis point_of_contact 01235446432 RAL Space STFC Rutherford Appleton Laboratory, Harwell Campus Didcot OX11 0QX United Kingdom support@ceda.ac.uk pointofContact NERC EDS Centre for Environmental Data Analysis publisher 01235446432 RAL Space STFC Rutherford Appleton Laboratory, Harwell Campus Didcot OX11 0QX United Kingdom support@ceda.ac.uk publisher unknown dataset NCEO BICEP Ocean Particulate Organic Carbon Ocean Colour Climate Change Initiative orthoimagery theme GEMET - INSPIRE themes, version 1.0 2008-06-01 publication otherRestrictions Public data: access to these data is available to both registered and non-registered users. otherRestrictions Under the following licence http://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/doc/open-government-licence/version/3/, appropriate use of these data may fall under any use. This message is intended as guidance, always read the full licence. When using these data you must cite them correctly using the citation given on the CEDA Data Catalogue record. grid English imageryBaseMapsEarthCover -180.0 180.0 -90.0 90.0 1997-09-01T00:00:00 2020-03-31T00:00:00 NetCDF NERC EDS Centre for Environmental Data Analysis Data Center Contact 01235446432 RAL Space STFC Rutherford Appleton Laboratory, Harwell Campus Didcot OX11 0QX United Kingdom support@ceda.ac.uk distributor https://catalogue.ceda.ac.uk/uuid/299b1bb28eaa440f9a36e9786adfe398 CEDA Data Catalogue Page Detail and access information for the resource information http://data.ceda.ac.uk/neodc/bicep/data/particulate_organic_carbon/v4.2_update/monthly/ DOWNLOAD Download Data download https://doi.org/10.5194/bg-5-171-2008 Stramski, D., Reynolds, R. A., Babin, M., Kaczmarek, S., Lewis, M. R., Röttgers, R., Sciandra, A., Stramska, M., Twardowski , M.S., Franz, B.A., Claustre, H. (2008). Relationships between the surface concentration of particulate organic carbon and optical properties in the eastern south pacific and eastern Atlantic Oceans. Biogeosciences 5, 171–201 No further details. information https://doi.org/10.3389/fmars.2017.00251 Evers-King, H.Martinez-Vicente, V., Brewin, R. J. W., Dall’Olmo, G., Hickman, A., Jackson, T., Kostadinov, T., Krasemann, H., Loisel, H., Röttgers, R., Roy, S\ ., Stramski, D., Thomalla, S., Platt, T., Sathyendranath, S. (2017). Validation and intercomparison of ocean-colour algorithms for estimating particulate organic carbon in the oceans. Frontiers in Marine Science. 4:251 No further details. information https://bicep-project.org/ Bicep Project information (including documentation) No further details. information http://dx.doi.org/10.5285/d62f7f801cb54c749d20e736d4a1039f Sathyendranath, S., et al, , (2020). ESA Ocean Colour Climate Change Initiative (Ocean_Colour_cci): Version 4.2 Data. Centre for Environmental Data Analysis, 9 May 2021. doi:10.5285/d62f7f801cb54c749d20e736d4a1039f. http://dx.doi.org/10.5285/d62f7f801cb54c749d20e736d4a1039f No further details. information https://artefacts.ceda.ac.uk/badc_datadocs/bicep/References_BICEP_POC_4km_v4.2.pdf References No further details. information dataset Commission Regulation (EU) No 1089/2010 of 23 November 2010 implementing Directive 2007/2/EC of the European Parliament and of the Council as regards interoperability of spatial data sets and services 2010-12-08 Data were produced by the Plymouth Marine Laboratory and supplied for archiving at the Centre for Environmental Data Analysis (CEDA). The research underpinning the work was supported by the European Space Agency (ESA) Biological Pump and Carbon Export Processes (BICEP) project and the product generation was supported by the National Centre for Earth Observation (NCEO).