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
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2015-12-07T08:10:34
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GEMET - INSPIRE themes, version 1.0

  • orthoimagery
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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
1997-09-03T23:00:00
End date
2012-07-31T22:59:59
Unique resource identifier
WGS 84
Distribution format
Name Version

The data is in netCDF format.
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Organisation name Individual name Electronic mail address Role

Centre for Environmental Data Analysis (CEDA)

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OnLine resource
Protocol Linkage Name
https://catalogue.ceda.ac.uk/uuid/be3edba3aefd42ebbebea241a71d608e

CEDA Data Catalogue Page
OnLine resource
Protocol Linkage Name
http://data.ceda.ac.uk/neodc/esacci/ocean_colour/data/v1-release/sinusoidal/netcdf/all_products/monthly/v1.0

DOWNLOAD
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http://data.ceda.ac.uk/neodc/esacci/ocean_colour/docs/CCI-OC-PUG-v1.0.1.pdf

Product User Guide
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https://climate.esa.int/

ESA Climate Change Initiative website
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http://data.ceda.ac.uk/neodc/esacci/ocean_colour/metadata/sample_images/ESACCI-OC-L3S-CHLOR_A-MERGED-MONTHLY_4km_GEO_PML_OC4v6-200804-fv1.0.png

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Protocol Linkage Name
https://climate.esa.int/projects/ocean-colour/

ESA CCI Ocean Colour project website
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Protocol Linkage Name
http://www.esa-oceancolour-cci.org/?q=webfm_send/531

Lavender, S. et al, 'The Ocean Colour Climate Change Initiative',Ocean Challenge, Vol.21, No.1, 2015
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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

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

Metadata

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English
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Dataset
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2025-11-09T03:05:40
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UK GEMINI
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2.3
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Centre for Environmental Data Analysis (CEDA)

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Keywords

GEMET - INSPIRE themes, version 1.0

orthoimagery


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