BICEP/NCEO: Monthly global Particulate Organic Carbon (POC), between 1997-2020 at 4 km resolution (produced from the Ocean Colour Climate Change Initiative v4.2 dataset), version 2

The BICEP/NCEO: Monthly global Particulate Organic Carbon (POC) v4.2 datasets contain POC concentrations (mg m^-3) with per pixel uncertainties estimates gridded on both geographic and sinusoidal projections at 4 km spatial resolution for the period of 1997 to 2020. The POC products were generated as part of the European Space Agency (ESA) Biological Pump and Carbon Exchange Processes (BICEP) project with support from the National Centre of Earth Observation (NCEO).

The POC concentrations were estimated using an empirical Remote Sensing Reflectance (Rrs) band ratio algorithm by Stramski et al. (2008): 203.2*Rrs(443)/Rrs(555)^-1.034. This algorithm has shown a relatively good performance in the recent global inter-comparison study conducted by Evers-King et al. (2017). Additional variables that were used for the calculation of the POC products are also provided in the datasets, including the Rrs at 443 nm and 555 nm obtained from the ESA Ocean Colour Climate Change Initiative version 4.2 dataset (OC-CCI v4.2)(Sathyendranath et al., 2020). In addition to the papers by Stramski et al. (2008) and Evers-king et al. (2017), for more details on the algorithm and its validation, please see the BICEP Algorithm Theoretical Basis Document (ATBD) and validation report ( https://bicep-project.org/Home).

This version of the dataset is an updated version of the previous 'NCEO: Monthly global Particulate Organic Carbon (POC) (produced from the Ocean Colour Climate Change Initiative, Version 4.2 dataset)'.

A related product based on the Ocean Colour Climate Change Initiative v5.0 data is also available (see the link in the related records section).

Date (Publication): 2021-12-21T14:45:49

Date (Creation): 2021-12-21T14:45:49

Citation identifier: https://catalogue.ceda.ac.uk/uuid/299b1bb28eaa440f9a36e9786adfe398

Citation identifier: NERC EDS Centre for Environmental Data Analysis / 299b1bb28eaa440f9a36e9786adfe398

Citation identifier: doi / 10.5285/299b1bb28eaa440f9a36e9786adfe398

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Organisation name	Individual name	Electronic mail address	Role
Unavailable	Sathyendranath, Shubha	Unavailable	Author
Unavailable	Kong, Christina Eunjin	Unavailable	Author
Unavailable	Jackson, Thomas	Unavailable	Author
NERC EDS Centre for Environmental Data Analysis		support@ceda.ac.uk	Custodian
NERC EDS Centre for Environmental Data Analysis		support@ceda.ac.uk	Distributor
Natural Environment Research Council (NERC)		unknown	Principal investigator
Unavailable	Sathyendranath, Shubha	Unavailable	Principal investigator
NERC EDS Centre for Environmental Data Analysis		support@ceda.ac.uk	pointofContact
NERC EDS Centre for Environmental Data Analysis		support@ceda.ac.uk	Publisher

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NCEO
BICEP
Ocean
Particulate Organic Carbon
Ocean Colour Climate Change Initiative

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Language: English

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Begin date: 1997-09-01T00:00:00

End date: 2020-03-31T00:00:00

Unique resource identifier: WGS 84

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NERC EDS Centre for Environmental Data Analysis		support@ceda.ac.uk	Distributor

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	https://catalogue.ceda.ac.uk/uuid/299b1bb28eaa440f9a36e9786adfe398	CEDA Data Catalogue Page

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	http://data.ceda.ac.uk/neodc/bicep/data/particulate_organic_carbon/v4.2_update/monthly/	DOWNLOAD

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Protocol	Linkage	Name
	https://doi.org/10.5194/bg-5-171-2008	Stramski, D., Reynolds, R. A., Babin, M., Kaczmarek, S., Lewis, M. R., Röttgers, R., Sciandra, A., Stramska, M., Twardowski , M.S., Franz, B.A., Claustre, H. (2008). Relationships between the surface concentration of particulate organic carbon and optical properties in the eastern south pacific and eastern Atlantic Oceans. Biogeosciences 5, 171–201

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Protocol	Linkage	Name
	https://doi.org/10.3389/fmars.2017.00251	Evers-King, H.Martinez-Vicente, V., Brewin, R. J. W., Dall’Olmo, G., Hickman, A., Jackson, T., Kostadinov, T., Krasemann, H., Loisel, H., Röttgers, R., Roy, S\ ., Stramski, D., Thomalla, S., Platt, T., Sathyendranath, S. (2017). Validation and intercomparison of ocean-colour algorithms for estimating particulate organic carbon in the oceans. Frontiers in Marine Science. 4:251

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	https://bicep-project.org/	Bicep Project information (including documentation)

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Protocol	Linkage	Name
	http://dx.doi.org/10.5285/d62f7f801cb54c749d20e736d4a1039f	Sathyendranath, S., et al, , (2020). ESA Ocean Colour Climate Change Initiative (Ocean_Colour_cci): Version 4.2 Data. Centre for Environmental Data Analysis, 9 May 2021. doi:10.5285/d62f7f801cb54c749d20e736d4a1039f. http://dx.doi.org/10.5285/d62f7f801cb54c749d20e736d4a1039f

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Protocol	Linkage	Name
	https://artefacts.ceda.ac.uk/badc_datadocs/bicep/References_BICEP_POC_4km_v4.2.pdf	References

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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: Data were produced by the Plymouth Marine Laboratory and supplied for archiving at the Centre for Environmental Data Analysis (CEDA). The research underpinning the work was supported by the European Space Agency (ESA) Biological Pump and Carbon Export Processes (BICEP) project and the product generation was supported by the National Centre for Earth Observation (NCEO).

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NERC EDS Centre for Environmental Data Analysis		support@ceda.ac.uk	Point of contact

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