MarQUEST: Phytoplankton Size Class (Micro, Nano, Pico) for 1998-2007 estimated 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 climatology and monthly measurements of phytoplankton Size Class from the SeaWiFS/SeaStar 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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2014-09-21T20:53:24
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2014-09-21T20:53:24
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NCAS British Atmospheric Data Centre (NCAS BADC) / 02f6ef21247f465fe14b5cb5246c255c
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Hirata, Takafumi

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Smyth, Timothy

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NCAS British Atmospheric Data Centre (NCAS BADC)

badc@rl.ac.uk

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NCAS British Atmospheric Data Centre (NCAS BADC)

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Natural Environment Research Council (NERC)

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Watson, Andrew

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NCAS British Atmospheric Data Centre (NCAS BADC)

badc@rl.ac.uk

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NCAS British Atmospheric Data Centre (NCAS BADC)

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NERC Earth Observation Data Centre (NEODC)

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Keywords

  • QUEST

  • MarQUEST

  • CASIX

  • 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
Unique resource identifier
WGS 84
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Data are netCDF formatted
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NCAS British Atmospheric Data Centre (NCAS BADC)

badc@rl.ac.uk

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https://catalogue.ceda.ac.uk/uuid/02f6ef21247f465fe14b5cb5246c255c

CEDA Data Catalogue Page
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http://data.ceda.ac.uk/badc/quest/data/marquest/pml_plankton

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OnLine resource
Protocol Linkage Name
http://quest.bris.ac.uk/research/themes/MarQUEST.html

MarQUEST (Marine Biogeochemistry and Initiative in QUEST)
OnLine resource
Protocol Linkage Name
http://quest.bris.ac.uk/publications/Quest%20Final%20Report/QUEST_FinalReport_Final_July2011.pdf

QUEST report
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Protocol Linkage Name
http://oceancolor.gsfc.nasa.gov/SeaWiFS/

SeaWIFS Project website
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http://casix.nerc.ac.uk/

CASIX web site
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Title

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

Date (Publication)
2010-12-08
Statement

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

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02f6ef21247f465fe14b5cb5246c255c XML
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MarQUEST (Marine Biogeochemistry and Initiative in QUEST): Ocean optical and plankton model measurements

2406ec006d9a38b9da6d381fd7c41a15
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Dataset
Date stamp
2025-06-09T02:01:42
Metadata standard name
UK GEMINI
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2.3
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NCAS British Atmospheric Data Centre (NCAS BADC)

badc@rl.ac.uk

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GEMET - INSPIRE themes, version 1.0

atmospheric conditions


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