ESA Ocean Colour Climate Change Initiative (Ocean_Colour_cci): Monthly climatology of global ocean colour data products, 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 a monthly climatology of the generated ocean colour products covering the period 1997 - 2020.



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.



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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2021-05-12T13:12:51
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2021-05-12T13:12:51
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https://catalogue.ceda.ac.uk/uuid/612a615afb5d48459b385380b440b545
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NERC EDS Centre for Environmental Data Analysis / 612a615afb5d48459b385380b440b545
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NERC EDS Centre for Environmental Data Analysis

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NERC EDS Centre for Environmental Data Analysis

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CCI Open Data Portal

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GEMET - INSPIRE themes, version 1.0

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Public data: access to these data is available to both registered and non-registered users.
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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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Begin date
1997-09-04T00:00:00
End date
2020-12-31T23:59:59
Unique resource identifier
WGS 84
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Data are netCDF formatted.
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NERC EDS Centre for Environmental Data Analysis

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OnLine resource
Protocol Linkage Name
https://catalogue.ceda.ac.uk/uuid/612a615afb5d48459b385380b440b545

CEDA Data Catalogue Page
OnLine resource
Protocol Linkage Name
http://data.ceda.ac.uk/neodc/esacci/ocean_colour/data/v5.0-release/climatology/netcdf/monthly/v5.0/

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https://docs.pml.space/share/s/okB2fOuPT7Cj2r4C5sppDg

Product User Guide
OnLine resource
Protocol Linkage Name
https://climate.esa.int/projects/ocean-colour/

ESA CCI Ocean Colour project website
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https://climate.esa.int/

ESA Climate Change Initiative website
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Dataset

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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

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

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ESA Ocean Colour Climate Change Initiative (Ocean_Colour_cci): Version 5.0 Data

1dbe7a109c0244aaad713e078fd3059a
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Dataset
Date stamp
2025-12-04T03:20:51
Metadata standard name
UK GEMINI
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2.3
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NERC EDS Centre for Environmental Data Analysis

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Keywords

GEMET - INSPIRE themes, version 1.0

orthoimagery


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