Overview
The surface chlorophyll-a concentration, a pigment which is present in the phytoplankton cells, is measured by satellite optical radiometers (passive remote sensing). Chlorophyll-a concentration is a proxy for the surface primary productivity, but represents only the surface concentration.
The product is a 8-day average, medium resolution, which is an optimal interpolation of the satellite measurements (optical radiometers) taken over the 8 previous days (giving more weight to the most recent data). The processing takes into account input data at level 1A.
This product has not gap.
Variables
Chlorophyll concentration
Temporal coverage
2011-08-23 to D-2
Geographical coverage
Latitude = -90/90 ; Longitude = 0/360
Vertical coverage
0
Spatial resolution
0.04 degree
Update frequency
Daily
Producer
CLS
Data access
NRT (last month, without any restart of the server)
