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Satellite Remote Sensing - Satellite Contributed Ocean Colour - MODIS - Aqua Chlorophyll Concentration in the Southern Ocean: Weekly, Johnson et al 2013

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The Aqua and Orbview satellites carry a MODIS and SeaWIFS sensors (respectively) that observes sunlight reflected from within the ocean surface layer at multiple wavelengths. These multi-spectral measurements are used to infer the concentration of chlorophyll-a (Chl-a), most typically due to phytoplankton, present in the water. There are multiple retrieval algorithms for estimating Chl-a and aggregating the data over time. This data set is a reprocessed copy of 9km monthly and 8-day versions produced globally by NASA, adjusted for the Southern Ocean south of latitude 30S. The full methodology is described in Johnson, R., Strutton, P.G., Wright, S.W., McMinn, A., Meiners, K.M., 2013. Three improved satellite chlorophyll algorithms for the Southern Ocean. Journal of Geophysical Research: Oceans. doi: 10.1002/jgrc.20270. It is expected that the data set will be periodically updated with contemporary data as it becomes available. There are four sub-streams within this data set. A monthly and an 8-day series for MODIS/Aqua and similarly for SeaWIFS. Note that SeaWIFS ceased operation in late 2010 so there will be no further SeaWIFS data. The data represented by this record is weekly data for MODIS/Aqua.

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Title Satellite Remote Sensing - Satellite Contributed Ocean Colour - MODIS - Aqua Chlorophyll Concentration in the Southern Ocean: Weekly, Johnson et al 2013
Language eng
Licence Not Specified
Landing Page https://data.gov.au/data/dataset/670d2929-f0ad-4751-9434-4a944beb7ccb
Contact Point
Australian Ocean Data Network
rjohnson@bom.gov.au
Reference Period 04/07/2002 - 26/12/2012
Geospatial Coverage
Map data © OpenStreetMap contributors
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This dataset was originally found on Australian Oceans Data Network "Satellite Remote Sensing - Satellite Contributed Ocean Colour - MODIS - Aqua Chlorophyll Concentration in the Southern Ocean: Weekly, Johnson et al 2013". Please visit the source to access the original metadata of the dataset:
https://catalogue.aodn.org.au/geonetwork/srv/eng/csw/dataset/satellite-remote-sensing-satellite-contributed-ocean-colour-modis-aqua-chlorophyll-concent-20131