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ESA Ocean Colour Climate Change Initiative (Ocean Colour CCI): Monthly global ocean colour data products gridded on a sinusoidal projection (All Products), 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 all their Version 1.0 generated ocean colour products on a sinusoidal projection at 4 km spatial resolution and at a monthly time resolution.
Data products being produced include: phytoplankton chlorophyll-a concentration; remote-sensing reflectance at six wavelengths; total absorption and backscattering coefficients; phytoplankton absorption coefficient and absorption coefficients for dissolved and detrital material; and the diffuse attenuation coefficient for downwelling irradiance for light of wavelength 490nm. Information on uncertainties is also provided.
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)
- 2015-12-07T08:10:34
- Date (Creation)
- 2015-12-07T08:10:34
- Identifier
- Centre for Environmental Data Analysis (CEDA) / be3edba3aefd42ebbebea241a71d608e
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- Keywords
- GEMET - INSPIRE themes, version 1.0
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- orthoimagery
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- Other constraints
- Public data: access to these data is available to both registered and non-registered users.
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- grid Grid
- Metadata language
- EnglishEnglish
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- 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
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The data is in netCDF format.
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The data is in netCDF format.
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CEDA Data Catalogue Page
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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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Lavender, S. et al, 'The Ocean Colour Climate Change Initiative',Ocean Challenge, Vol.21, No.1, 2015
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- dataset Dataset
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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
- be3edba3aefd42ebbebea241a71d608e 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
- 2025-11-15T03:05:52
- Metadata standard name
- UK GEMINI
- Metadata standard version
- 2.3
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