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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Metadata Language: English (en)

Dataset Reference Date (): 2008-12-10T10:14:04

Dataset Reference Date (): 2008-12-10T10:14:04

Identifier: https://catalogue.ceda.ac.uk/uuid/33421537b9dd476d911b8f184734bb90

Identifier: NCAS British Atmospheric Data Centre (NCAS BADC) / 33421537b9dd476d911b8f184734bb90

Unavailable - Hirata, Takafumi ( author )

Unavailable - Smyth, Timothy ( author )

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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British Atmospheric Data Centre , STFC Rutherford Appleton Laboratory , Harwell Oxford , OX11 0QX , UK

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Natural Environment Research Council (NERC) - principal_investigator

Polaris House , North Star Avenue , Swindon , SN2 1EU , United Kingdom

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Unavailable - Watson, Andrew ( principal_investigator )

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British Atmospheric Data Centre , STFC Rutherford Appleton Laboratory , Harwell Oxford , OX11 0QX , UK

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British Atmospheric 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

Code: WGS 84

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Dataset Reference Date (): 2010-12-08

Statement: OCCAM model data provided by Bablu Sinha at NOC. Plankton data from PML.

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File identifier: 33421537b9dd476d911b8f184734bb90 XML

Metadata Language: English (en)

Character set: 8-bit variable size UCS Transfer Format, based on ISO/IEC 10646

Parent identifier: MarQUEST (Marine Biogeochemistry and Initiative in QUEST): Ocean optical and plankton model measurements 2406ec006d9a38b9da6d381fd7c41a15

Resource type: dataset

Metadata Date: 2024-09-05T23:05:24

Metadata standard name: UK GEMINI

Metadata standard version: 2.3

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