ESA Ocean Colour Climate Change Initiative (Ocean_Colour_cci): Global dataset of inherent optical properties (IOP) gridded on a geographic projection, Version 3.1

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 their Version 3.1 inherent optical properties (IOP) product (in mg/m3) on a geographic projection at approximately 4 km spatial resolution and at a number of time resolutions (daily, 5-day, 8-day and monthly composites). Note, this the IOP data is also included in the 'All Products' dataset.



The inherent optical properties (IOP) dataset consists of the total absorption and particle backscattering coefficients, and, additionally, the fraction of detrital & dissolved organic matter absorption and phytoplankton absorption. The total absorption (units m-1), the total backscattering (m-1), the absorption by detrital and coloured dissolved organic matter, the backscattering by particulate matter, and the absorption by phytoplankton share the same spatial resolution of ~4 km. The values of IOP are reported for the standard SeaWiFS wavelengths (412, 443, 490, 510, 555, 670nm).



This data product is on a geographic grid projection, which is a direct conversion of latitude and longitude coordinates to a rectangular grid, typically a fixed multiplier of 360x180. The netCDF files follow the CF convention for this projection with a resolution of 8640x4320. (A separate dataset is also available for data on a sinusoidal projection.)



Please note, this dataset has been superseded. Later versions of the data are now available.

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Date (Publication)
2018-06-25T17:47:22
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2018-06-25T17:47:22
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Centre for Environmental Data Analysis (CEDA) / edaa7e7324e849f683d3726088a0c7bd
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alternative.identifier / esacci.OC.5-days.L3S.IOP.multi-sensor.multi-platform.MERGED.3-1.geographic.v20180604
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alternative.identifier / esacci.OC.8-days.L3S.IOP.multi-sensor.multi-platform.MERGED.3-1.geographic.v20180703
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Begin date
1997-09-03T23:00:00
End date
2016-12-31T23:59:59
Unique resource identifier
WGS 84
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Data are in NetCDF format
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Centre for Environmental Data Analysis (CEDA)

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https://catalogue.ceda.ac.uk/uuid/edaa7e7324e849f683d3726088a0c7bd

CEDA Data Catalogue Page
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Protocol Linkage Name
http://data.ceda.ac.uk/neodc/esacci/ocean_colour/data/v3.1-release/geographic/netcdf/iop/

DOWNLOAD
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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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http://data.ceda.ac.uk/neodc/esacci/ocean_colour/docs/OC-CCI-PUG-v3.1.pdf

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

ESA Climate Change Initiative website
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https://climate.esa.int/projects/ocean-colour/

ESA CCI Ocean Colour project website
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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.

This dataset forms part of the v3.1 ocean colour dataset collection that can be cited with doi:10.5285/9c334fbe6d424a708cf3c4cf0c6a53f5

( http://dx.doi.org/10.5285/9c334fbe6d424a708cf3c4cf0c6a53f5)

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2025-12-04T03:15:35
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Centre for Environmental Data Analysis (CEDA)

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