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ESA Ocean Colour Climate Change Initiative (Ocean Colour CCI): Daily global remote sensing reflectance gridded on a sinusoidal projection, Version 1.0

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 the Version 1.0 Remote Sensing Reflectance product on a sinusoidal projection at approximately 4 km spatial resolution and at a daily time resolution. Values for remote sensing reflectance at the sea surface are provided for the standard SeaWiFS wavelengths (412, 443, 490, 510, 555, 670nm) with pixel-by-pixel uncertainty estimates for each wavelength. These are merged products based on SeaWiFS, MERIS and Aqua-MODIS data. Note, this dataset is also contained within the 'All Products' dataset.

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)
2015-12-07T08:10:15
Date (Creation)
2015-12-07T08:10:15
Identifier
https://catalogue.ceda.ac.uk/uuid/a456b6c4c290453d8bb436e45e616f78
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Centre for Environmental Data Analysis (CEDA) / a456b6c4c290453d8bb436e45e616f78
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  Unavailable - Sathyendranath, Shubha ( author )
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  Unavailable - Brewin, Robert J. W. ( author )
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  Unavailable - Mélin, Frédéric ( author )
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  Unavailable - Farman, Alex ( author )
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  Unavailable - Lavender, Sam ( author )
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  Unavailable - Moore, Timothy S. ( author )
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  Unavailable - Roy, Shovonlal ( author )
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  Unavailable - Steinmetz, François ( author )
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  Unavailable - Mazeran, Constant ( author )
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  Unavailable - Brando, Vittorio E. ( author )
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  Unavailable - Arnone, Robert ( author )
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  Unavailable - Barker, Kathryn ( author )
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  Unavailable - Berthon, Jean-François ( author )
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  Unavailable - Beşiktepe, Şükrü ( author )
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  Unavailable - Canuti, Elisabetta ( author )
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  Unavailable - Kahru, Mati ( author )
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  Unavailable - Kratzer, Susanne ( author )
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  Unavailable - Mitchell, Brian G. ( author )
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  Unavailable - O'Dowd, Leonie ( author )
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  Unavailable - Poulton, Alex J. ( author )
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  Unavailable - Repecaud, Michel ( author )
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  Unavailable - Smyth, Timothy ( author )
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  Unavailable - Werdell, Jeremy ( author )
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  Unavailable - Wernand, Marcel ( author )
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  Unavailable - Zibordi, Giuseppe ( author )
Custodian
  Centre for Environmental Data Analysis (CEDA) - custodian
Rutherford Appleton Laboratory , Harwell , Oxon , OX11 0QX , United Kingdom
01235446432
Distributor
  Centre for Environmental Data Analysis (CEDA) - distributor
Rutherford Appleton Laboratory , Harwell , Oxon , OX11 0QX , United Kingdom
01235446432
pointofContact
  Centre for Environmental Data Analysis (CEDA) - point_of_contact
Rutherford Appleton Laboratory , Harwell , Oxon , OX11 0QX , United Kingdom
01235446432
Publisher
  Centre for Environmental Data Analysis (CEDA) - publisher
Rutherford Appleton Laboratory , Harwell , Oxon , OX11 0QX , United Kingdom
01235446432
Maintenance and update frequency
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Update scope
dataset Dataset
Keywords
  • Plymouth Marine Laboratory
  • Level 3S
  • Aqua
  • Level 3
  • Envisat
  • MERGED
  • day
  • remote sensing reflectance
  • ocean colour
  • MODIS
  • MERIS
  • Orbview-2
  • SeaWiFS
  • Orbview-2
  • Environmental Satellite
  • EOS
  • ESA
  • CCI
  • Sinusoidal
  • Daily
  • Reflectance
GEMET - INSPIRE themes, version 1.0
  • orthoimagery
Access constraints
otherRestrictions Other restrictions
Other constraints
Public data: access to these data is available to both registered and non-registered users.
Use constraints
otherRestrictions Other restrictions
Other constraints
Under the following licence https://artefacts.ceda.ac.uk/licences/specific_licences/esacci_oc_terms_and_conditions.pdf, 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.
Spatial representation type
grid Grid
Metadata language
EnglishEnglish
Topic category
  • Imagery base maps earth cover
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Begin date
1997-09-03T23:00:00
End date
2012-07-31T22:59:59
Unique resource identifier
WGS 84
Distribution format
  • The data is in netCDF format ()

Distributor
  Centre for Environmental Data Analysis (CEDA) - Data Center Contact
Rutherford Appleton Laboratory , Harwell , Oxon , OX11 0QX , United Kingdom
01235446432
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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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Product User Guide

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ESA Climate Change Initiative website

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ESA CCI Ocean Colour project website

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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
a456b6c4c290453d8bb436e45e616f78 XML
Metadata language
EnglishEnglish
Character set
8-bit variable size UCS Transfer Format, based on ISO/IEC 10646 UTF8
Hierarchy level
dataset Dataset
Date stamp
2025-05-09T02:27:27
Metadata standard name
UK GEMINI
Metadata standard version
2.3
Point of contact
  Centre for Environmental Data Analysis (CEDA)
Rutherford Appleton Laboratory , Harwell , Oxon , OX11 0QX , United Kingdom
01235446432
 
 

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