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GlobColour Team (2008): Global Ocean Colour for Carbon Cycle Research (full product set) [dataset publication series]. Observation de la Terre - Environnement (ACRI-ST), Sophia Antipolis, PANGAEA, https://doi.org/10.1594/PANGAEA.695832

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Abstract:
In 2005, the International Ocean Colour Coordinating Group (IOCCG) convened a working group to examine the state of the art in ocean colour data merging, which showed that the research techniques had matured sufficiently for creating long multi-sensor datasets (IOCCG, 2007). As a result, ESA initiated and funded the DUE GlobColour project (http://www.globcolour.info/) to develop a satellite based ocean colour data set to support global carbon-cycle research. It aims to satisfy the scientific requirement for a long (10+ year) time-series of consistently calibrated global ocean colour information with the best possible spatial coverage. This has been achieved by merging data from the three most capable sensors: SeaWiFS on GeoEye's Orbview-2 mission, MODIS on NASA's Aqua mission and MERIS on ESA's ENVISAT mission.
In setting up the GlobColour project, three user organisations were invited to help. Their roles are to specify the detailed user requirements, act as a channel to the broader end user community and to provide feedback and assessment of the results. The International Ocean Carbon Coordination Project (IOCCP) based at UNESCO in Paris provides direct access to the carbon cycle modelling community's requirements and to the modellers themselves who will use the final products. The UK Met Office's National Centre for Ocean Forecasting (NCOF) in Exeter, UK, provides an understanding of the requirements of oceanography users, and the IOCCG bring their understanding of the global user needs and valuable advice on best practice within the ocean colour science community.
The three year project kicked-off in November 2005 under the leadership of ACRI-ST (France). The first year was a feasibility demonstration phase that was successfully concluded at a user consultation workshop organised by the Laboratoire d'Océanographie de Villefranche, France, in December 2006. Error statistics and inter-sensor biases were quantified by comparison with insitu measurements from moored optical buoys and ship based campaigns, and used as an input to the merging.
The second year was dedicated to the production of the time series. In total, more than 25 Tb of input (level 2) data have been ingested and 14 Tb of intermediate and output products created, with 4 Tb of data distributed to the user community. Quality control (QC) is provided through the Diagnostic Data Sets (DDS), which are extracted sub-areas covering locations of in-situ data collection or interesting oceanographic phenomena. This Full Product Set (FPS) covers global daily merged ocean colour products in the time period 1997-2006 and is also freely available for use by the worldwide science community at http://www.globcolour.info/data_access_full_prod_set.html.
The GlobColour service distributes global daily, 8-day and monthly data sets at 4.6 km resolution for, chlorophyll-a concentration, normalised water-leaving radiances (412, 443, 490, 510, 531, 555 and 620 nm, 670, 681 and 709 nm), diffuse attenuation coefficient, coloured dissolved and detrital organic materials, total suspended matter or particulate backscattering coefficient, turbidity index, cloud fraction and quality indicators. Error statistics from the initial sensor characterisation are used as an input to the merging methods and propagate through the merging process to provide error estimates for the output merged products. These error estimates are a key component of GlobColour as they are invaluable to the users; particularly the modellers who need them in order to assimilate the ocean colour data into ocean simulations.
An intensive phase of validation has been undertaken to assess the quality of the data set. In addition, inter-comparisons between the different merged datasets will help in further refining the techniques used. Both the final products and the quality assessment were presented at a second user consultation in Oslo on 20-22 November 2007 organised by the Norwegian Institute for Water Research (NIVA); presentations are available on the GlobColour WWW site. On request of the ESA Technical Officer for the GlobColour project, the FPS data set was mirrored in the PANGAEA data library.
Further details:
GlobColour: An EO based service supporting global ocean carbon cycle research - Product user guide (2007). hdl:10013/epic.30343.d001
Project(s):
European Node for Global Ocean Colour (GlobColour)
Coverage:
Date/Time Start: 1997-09-01T00:00:00 * Date/Time End: 2007-12-31T00:00:00
Comment:
The Full Product Set (FPS) covers the merged Level-3 ocean colour products in the time period 1997-2006 and has a total size of 1.35 TB. In case of feedback, questions, or problems, please send a mail to service@globcolour.info.
License:
Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 Unported (CC-BY-3.0)
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Datasets listed in this publication series

  1. GlobColour Team (2008): Particulate back-scattering coefficient at 443 nm (BBP). https://doi.org/10.1594/PANGAEA.694698
  2. GlobColour Team (2008): Coloured dissolved and detrital organic materials absorption coefficient (CDM). https://doi.org/10.1594/PANGAEA.694697
  3. GlobColour Team (2008): Cloud fraction (CF). https://doi.org/10.1594/PANGAEA.694699
  4. GlobColour Team (2008): Chlorophyll-a concentration for case 1 water (CHL1). https://doi.org/10.1594/PANGAEA.694700
  5. GlobColour Team (2008): Chlorophyll-a concentration for case 2 water (CHL2). https://doi.org/10.1594/PANGAEA.694701
  6. GlobColour Team (2008): Relative excess of radiance at 555 nm (EL555). https://doi.org/10.1594/PANGAEA.694702
  7. GlobColour Team (2008): Diffuse attenuation coefficient at 490 nm (KD490). https://doi.org/10.1594/PANGAEA.694703
  8. GlobColour Team (2008): Fully normalised water leaving radiances at 412 nm (L412). https://doi.org/10.1594/PANGAEA.694704
  9. GlobColour Team (2008): Fully normalised water leaving radiances at 443 nm (L443). https://doi.org/10.1594/PANGAEA.694705
  10. GlobColour Team (2008): Fully normalised water leaving radiances at 490 nm (L490). https://doi.org/10.1594/PANGAEA.694706
  11. GlobColour Team (2008): Fully normalised water leaving radiances at 510 nm (L510). https://doi.org/10.1594/PANGAEA.694707
  12. GlobColour Team (2008): Fully normalised water leaving radiances at 531 nm (L531). https://doi.org/10.1594/PANGAEA.694708
  13. GlobColour Team (2008): Fully normalised water leaving radiances at 555 nm (L555). https://doi.org/10.1594/PANGAEA.694709
  14. GlobColour Team (2008): Fully normalised water leaving radiances at 620 nm (L620). https://doi.org/10.1594/PANGAEA.694710
  15. GlobColour Team (2008): Fully normalised water leaving radiances at 670 nm (L670). https://doi.org/10.1594/PANGAEA.694711
  16. GlobColour Team (2008): Fully normalised water leaving radiances at 681 nm (L681). https://doi.org/10.1594/PANGAEA.694712
  17. GlobColour Team (2008): Fully normalised water leaving radiances at 709 nm (L709). https://doi.org/10.1594/PANGAEA.694713
  18. GlobColour Team (2008): Aerosol optical thickness over water (T865). https://doi.org/10.1594/PANGAEA.694714
  19. GlobColour Team (2008): Total suspended matter concentration (TSM). https://doi.org/10.1594/PANGAEA.694715