Title
A compilation of global bio-optical in situ data for ocean-colour satellite applications - Version two
Date Issued
15 July 2019
Access level
open access
Resource Type
journal article
Author(s)
Valente A.
Sathyendranath S.
Brotas V.
Groom S.
Grant M.
Taberner M.
Antoine D.
Arnone R.
Balch W.M.
Barker K.
Barlow R.
Bélanger S.
Berthon J.F.
Beşiktepe S.
Borsheim Y.
Bracher A.
Brando V.
Canuti E.
Chavez F.
Cianca A.
Claustre H.
Clementson L.
Crout R.
Frouin R.
García-Soto C.
Gibb S.W.
Gould R.
Hooker S.B.
Kahru M.
Kampel M.
Klein H.
Kratzer S.
Kudela R.
Loisel H.
Matrai P.
Mckee D.
Mitchell B.G.
Moisan T.
Muller-Karger F.
O'Dowd L.
Ondrusek M.
Platt T.
Poulton A.J.
Repecaud M.
Schroeder T.
Smyth T.
Smythe-Wright D.
Sosik H.M.
Twardowski M.
Vellucci V.
Voss K.
Werdell J.
Wernand M.
Wright S.
Zibordi G.
Publisher(s)
Copernicus GmbH
Abstract
A global compilation of in situ data is useful to evaluate the quality of ocean-colour satellite data records. Here we describe the data compiled for the validation of the ocean-colour products from the ESA Ocean Colour Climate Change Initiative (OC-CCI). The data were acquired from several sources (including, inter alia, MOBY, BOUSSOLE, AERONET-OC, SeaBASS, NOMAD, MERMAID, AMT, ICES, HOT and GePCO) and span the period from 1997 to 2018. Observations of the following variables were compiled: spectral remote-sensing reflectances, concentrations of chlorophyll <i>a</i>, spectral inherent optical properties, spectral diffuse attenuation coefficients and total suspended matter. The data were from multi-project archives acquired via open internet services or from individual projects, acquired directly from data providers. Methodologies were implemented for homogenization, quality control and merging of all data. No changes were made to the original data, other than averaging of observations that were close in time and space, elimination of some points after quality control and conversion to a standard format. The final result is a merged table designed for validation of satellite-derived ocean-colour products and available in text format. Metadata of each in situ measurement (original source, cruise or experiment, principal investigator) was propagated throughout the work and made available in the final table. By making the metadata available, provenance is better documented, and it is also possible to analyse each set of data separately. This paper also describes the changes that were made to the compilation in relation to the previous version (Valente et al., 2016). The compiled data are available at <a hrefCombining double low line"https://doi.org/10.1594/PANGAEA.898188">https://doi.org/10.1594/PANGAEA.898188</a> (Valente et al., 2019).
Start page
1037
End page
1068
Volume
11
Issue
3
Language
English
OCDE Knowledge area
Oceanografía, Hidrología, Recursos hídricos
Scopus EID
2-s2.0-85069003259
Source
Earth System Science Data
ISSN of the container
18663508
Sponsor(s)
Financial support. This research has been supported by the ESA Climate Change Initiative – Ocean Colour project (ref: AO-1/6207/09/I-LG).
Acknowledgements. This paper is a contribution to the ESA OC-CCI project. This work is also a contribution to project PEst-OE/MAR/UI0199/2014. We would like to thank the efforts of the teams responsible for collection of the data in the field and of the teams responsible for processing and storing the data in archives, without which this work would not be possible. We thank Ta-moghna Acharyya and Robert Brewin at Plymouth Marine Laboratory for their initial contribution to this work. We thank the NOAA (US) for making available the MOBY data and Yong Sung Kim for the help in questions about MOBY data. BOUSSOLE is supported and funded by the European Space Agency (ESA), the Centre National d’Etudes Spatiales (CNES), the Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS), the Institut National des Sciences de l’Univers (INSU), the Sorbonne Université (SU) and the Institut de la Mer de Villefranche (IMEV). We thank ACRI-ST, ARGANS and ESA for access to the MERMAID database (http: //hermes.acri.fr/mermaid, last access: 10 July 2019). We thank An-nelies Hommersom, Pierre Yves Deschamps, Gavin Tilstone and David Siegel for allowing the use of MERMAID data for which they are principal investigators. We thank the British Oceanographic Data Centre (BODC) for access to AMT data and in particular to Polly Hadziabdic and Rob Thomas for their help in questions about the AMT dataset. We thank Victoria Hill, Patrick Holli-gan, Gerald Moore and Emilio Suarez for the use of AMT data for which they are principal investigators. We thank Sam Ahmed, Hui Feng, Alex Gilerson and Brent Holben for allowing the use of the AERONET-OC data for which they are principal investigators. We thank also the AERONET staff and site support people. The Australian Integrated Marine Observing System (IMOS) and CSIRO are acknowledged for funding the Lucinda AERONET-OC site. We thank Bob Bidigare, Matthew Church, Ricardo Lete-lier and Jasmine Nahorniak for making the HOT data available, as well as the National Science Foundation for support of the HOT research (grant OCE 09-26766). We thank Yves Dandonneau for allowing the use of GeP&CO data. We thank the ICES database on the marine environment (Copenhagen, Denmark, 2014) for allowing the use of their archived data and Marilynn Sørensen for the help with questions about the ICES dataset. We thank all ICES contributors for their data. We thank Eric Zettler and Sea Education Association. The CARIACO Ocean Time-Series Program also provided significant decade-long bio-optical information used in this study. These data were obtained from NOMAD and SeaBASS. We thank NASA, SeaBASS and the Ocean Biology Processing Group (OBPG) for access to SeaBASS and NOMAD data. We thank NASA for project funding for data collection. We thank Chris Proctor from SeaBASS for his valuable and prompt help in a variety of questions. We are deeply thankful to the data contributors of NOMAD and SeaBASS: Kevin Arrigo, Mike Behrenfeld, Em-manuel Boss, Chris Brown, Mary Luz Canon, Douglas Capone, Ken Carder, Alex Chekalyuk, Jay-Chung Chen, Dennis Clark, Jorge Corredor, Glenn Cota, Yves Dandonneau, Heidi Dierssen, David Eslinger, Piotr Flatau, Alex Gilerson, Joaquim Goes, Gwo-Ching Gong, Adriana Gonzalez-Silvera, Larry Harding, Jon Hare, Chuanmin Hu, Sung-Ho Kang, Gary Kirkpatrick, Oleg Kopele-vich, Sam Laney, Pierre Larouche, Zhongping Lee, Ricardo Lete-lier, Marlon Lewis, Steven Lohrenz, Antonio Mannino, John Marra, Chuck McClain, Christophe Menkes, Mark Miller, Ru Morrison, James Mueller, Ruben Negri, James Nelson, Norman Nelson, Mary Jane Perry, David Phinney, John Porter, Collin Roesler, David Siegel, Mike Sieracki, Jeffrey Smart, Raymond Smith, James Spinhirne, Dariusz Stramski, Rick Stumpf, Ajit Subrama-niam, Chuck Trees, Ronald Zaneveld, Eric Zettler and Richard Zim-merman. For the BIOCHEM data we thank the Fisheries and Oceans Canada and the following data contributors: Diane Ar-chambault, Hughes Benoit, Esther Bonneau, Eugene Colbourne, Alain Gagne, Yves Gagnon, Tom Hurlbut, Catherine Johnson, Pierre Joly, Maurice Levasseur, Jean-Francois Lussier, So-nia Michaud, Patrick Ouellet, Jacques Plourde, Stephane Plourde, Luc Savoie, Michael Scarratt, Philippe Schwab, Michel Starr and François Villeneuve. We also thank Laure Devine for the help in processing the BIOCHEM dataset. We thank Ralph Goericke for allowing the use of the CalCOFI and CCELTER data. CalCOFI research is supported by contributions from the participating agencies: the California State Department of Fish and Wildlife, NOAA, National Marine Fisheries Service, Southwest Fisheries Science Center, and the University of California, Integrative Oceanography Division at the Scripps Institution of Oceanography, UCSD. The authors would like to thank the Oceanic Platform of the Canary Islands (PLOCAN) and its staff for making freely available the use of this ESTOC dataset. We thank the following MARE-DAT data providers: Robert Bidigare, Denise Cummings, Giacomo DiTullio, Chris Gallienne, Ralf Goericke, Patrick Holli-gan, David Karl, Michael Landry, Michael Lomas, Michael Lucas, Jean-Claude Marty, Walker Smith, Rick Stumpf, Emilio Suarez, Koji Suzuki, Maria Vernet and Simon Wright. We thank Oscar Schofield, Raymond Smith and Maria Vernet for allowing the use of the PALMER data. Data from the Palmer LTER data repository were supported by the Office of Polar Programs, NSF grants OPP-9011927, OPP-9632763 and OPP-0217282. We thank the Sea-DataNet Pan-European infrastructure for ocean and marine data management (http://www.seadatanet.org, last access: 10 July 2019). We thank Emmanuel Boss for the TARA data. Funding for the collection and processing of the TARA dataset was provided by the NASA Ocean Biology and Biogeochemistry programme un- der grants NNX11AQ14G, NNX09AU43G, NNX13AE58G and NNX15AC08G to the University of Maine. Vanda Brotas received a sabbatical grant from FCT SFRH/BSAB/142981/201. We would like to honour the memory of Marcel Wernand and Tiffany Moisan, authors who contributed to the first version.
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