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MERIS Level 3

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Full Product Set (PPS)

The Full Product Set (FPS) covers the merged Level-3 ocean colour products in the time period 1997-2007 and is now available for validation.

The FPS data set consists of ocean colour merged data products using the merging algorithms recommended at the first GlobColour workshop in Villefranche sur mer (France) on the 4-6 December 2006. The FPS includes level 3 merged products as daily, 8-days and monthly averaged products mapped on a common ISIN 4.63km grid.

A full scale validation has been performed and all results have been presented at the second user workshop, in Oslo, on November 20-22 2007.

Distributed merged products are:

For the open ocean case:

  • Chlorophyll-a, case I water (CHL1),
  • Chlorophyll-a, case II water (CHL2),
  • Total Suspended Matter (TSM),
  • Coloured dissolved and detrital organic materials (CDM),
  • Particulate back-scattering coefficient (bbp),
  • Diffuse attenuation coefficient (KD490),
  • Fully normalised water leaving radiances at 412, 443, 490, 510, 531, 550-565, 620, 665-670, 681 and 709 nm (Lxxx),
  • Relative excess of radiance at 555 nm (EL555),
  • Aerosol optical thickness over water (T865),
  • Cloud Fraction (CF).

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Web portal to access Ocean-Colour satellite-based data sets

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GlobColour Full Product Set (fps)
GlobColour Diagnostic Data Sets (dds)



The FPS files are also accessible via a dedicated FTP service.
Use login globcolour_data and password fgh678 for log-in.


The ftp directory structure is described below:

/product type (FPS)

/parameter type (CHL1, L412, EL555, CF...)

/MERGED

/merging mode (WEIGHTED | GMS)

/year (1997-2006)

/binning period (DAILY, 8DAYS, MONTHLY)

/products (L3b..., L3m...)

Note: the merging mode also contain the list of input data sensors (separated by an hyphen).
Instruments accronyms are used: MER for MERIS, MOD for MODIS and SWF for SeaWiFS.
Any combinaisons of these names is allowed (e.g. MER, MOD or SWF alone, MERMOD for merged MERIS and MODIS data, MERMODSWF for the merging of the three instruments data).


Should you be interested by the MERIS daily level 3 products at 4.6 km resolution used as input to the merging, please contact:

service@globcolour.info


The European Service for Ocean Colour - GlobColour is an ESA Data User Element Project