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ESA Ocean Colour Climate Change Initiative (Ocean_Colour_cci): Global remote sensing reflectance gridded on a geographic projection, Version 5.0

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 5.0 Remote Sensing Reflectance product on a geographic projection at approximately 4 km spatial resolution and at a number of time resolutions (daily, 5-day, 8-day and monthly composites) covering the period 1997 - 2020. 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 geographic grid projection, which is a direct conversion of latitude and longitude coordinates to a rectangular grid, typically a fixed multiplier of 360x180. The netCDF files follow the CF convention for this projection with a resolution of 8640x4320. (A separate dataset is also available for data on a sinusoidal projection).

Please note, data from December 2020 onwards are affected by an anomaly discovered after production and resulting in a spurious jump in remote sensing reflectance. The anomaly has been corrected in the version 5.0.1 of the dataset available through the Copernicus Climate Change Service (https://doi.org/10.24381/cds.f85b319d)

Version 6.0 of this data is now also available here: https://doi.org/10.5285/5011d22aae5a4671b0cbc7d05c56c4f0

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Date (Publication)
2021-05-12T13:07:26
Date (Creation)
2021-05-12T13:07:26
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https://catalogue.ceda.ac.uk/uuid/5ab5267b17254152bcdbc055747faa02
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NERC EDS Centre for Environmental Data Analysis / 5ab5267b17254152bcdbc055747faa02
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  Unavailable - Sathyendranath, Shubha ( author )
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  Unavailable - Jackson, Thomas ( author )
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  Unavailable - Brockmann, Carsten ( author )
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  Unavailable - Brotas, Vanda ( author )
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  Unavailable - Cipollini, Paolo ( author )
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  Unavailable - Groom, Stephen ( author )
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  Unavailable - Krasemann, Hajo ( author )
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  Unavailable - Lavender, Sam ( author )
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  Unavailable - Mazeran, Constant ( author )
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  Unavailable - Mélin, Frédéric ( author )
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  Unavailable - Müller, Dagmar ( author )
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  Unavailable - Steinmetz, François ( author )
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  Unavailable - Valente, André ( author )
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  Unavailable - Zühlke, Marco ( author )
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  Unavailable - Feldman, Gene ( author )
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  Unavailable - Franz, Bryan ( author )
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  Unavailable - Frouin, Robert ( author )
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  Unavailable - Werdell, Jeremy ( author )
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  Unavailable - Platt, Trevor ( author )
Custodian
  NERC EDS Centre for Environmental Data Analysis - custodian
RAL Space , STFC Rutherford Appleton Laboratory, Harwell Campus , Didcot , OX11 0QX , United Kingdom
01235446432
Distributor
  NERC EDS Centre for Environmental Data Analysis - distributor
RAL Space , STFC Rutherford Appleton Laboratory, Harwell Campus , Didcot , OX11 0QX , United Kingdom
01235446432
pointofContact
  NERC EDS Centre for Environmental Data Analysis - point_of_contact
RAL Space , STFC Rutherford Appleton Laboratory, Harwell Campus , Didcot , OX11 0QX , United Kingdom
01235446432
pointofContact
  CCI Open Data Portal - point_of_contact
Publisher
  NERC EDS Centre for Environmental Data Analysis - publisher
RAL Space , STFC Rutherford Appleton Laboratory, Harwell Campus , Didcot , OX11 0QX , United Kingdom
01235446432
Maintenance and update frequency
notPlanned Not planned
Update scope
dataset Dataset
Keywords
  • Aqua
  • Envisat
  • Orbview-2
  • Sentinel-3A
  • SNPP
  • VIIRS
  • MERIS
  • MODIS
  • SeaWiFS
  • OLCI
  • ESA
  • CCI
  • Ocean Colour
  • Geographic
  • 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.
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grid Grid
Metadata language
EnglishEnglish
Topic category
  • Imagery base maps earth cover
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Begin date
1997-09-04T00:00:00
End date
2020-12-31T23:59:59
Unique resource identifier
WGS 84
Distribution format
  • Data are netCDF formatted. ()

Distributor
  NERC EDS Centre for Environmental Data Analysis - Data Center Contact
RAL Space , STFC Rutherford Appleton Laboratory, Harwell Campus , Didcot , OX11 0QX , United Kingdom
01235446432
OnLine resource
CEDA Data Catalogue Page

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ESA Climate Change Initiative website

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ESA CCI Ocean Colour project website

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dataset Dataset

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Date (Publication)
2010-12-08
Statement

These data were produced by the ESA Ocean Colour CCI project and provided to CEDA in the context of the ESA CCI Open Data Portal project.

This dataset forms part of the v5.0 ocean colour dataset collection that can be cited with the following DOI: 10.5285/1dbe7a109c0244aaad713e078fd3059a

File identifier
5ab5267b17254152bcdbc055747faa02 XML
Metadata language
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Character set
8-bit variable size UCS Transfer Format, based on ISO/IEC 10646 UTF8
Parent identifier
ESA Ocean Colour Climate Change Initiative (Ocean_Colour_cci): Version 5.0 Data 1dbe7a109c0244aaad713e078fd3059a
Hierarchy level
dataset Dataset
Date stamp
2025-11-15T03:20:55
Metadata standard name
UK GEMINI
Metadata standard version
2.3
Point of contact
  NERC EDS Centre for Environmental Data Analysis
RAL Space , STFC Rutherford Appleton Laboratory, Harwell Campus , Didcot , OX11 0QX , United Kingdom
01235446432
 
 

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