Guide to the creation and use of ocean-colour, Level-3, binned data products
Deel van: Reports and Monographs of the International Ocean-Colour Coordinating Group (IOCCG). IOCCG: Dartmouth. ISSN 1098-6030, meer
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| Abstract |
One of the goals of launching a number of ocean-colour sensors aboard various satellites is to build a long-term, multi-sensor, multi-year, ocean-colour archive. The derived chlorophyll concentrations (in time and space) can be used to resolve inter-annual-to-decadal changes in oceanic phytoplankton biomass in response to global environmental changes. This report examines issues related to the diversity in current “binning” schemes used for ocean-colour data, and recommends basic approaches that could be used across agencies or projects, in parallel to the current schemes. Issues related to merging of ocean-colour data from different sensors are also addressed, as well as the synergistic use of ocean colour with other satellite-derived observations, such as sea-surface temperature. |
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