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Description

The Ancillary Data component of the Indicators of Coastal Water Quality Collection includes a 5 arc-minute (approximately 9 x 9 km at the equator) sequence grid, grid cell centroids that relate to the grid cells in the tabular "Indicators of Coastal Water Quality: Change in Chlorophyll-a Concentration 1998-2007" data set, and a country buffer data set that is divided by exclusive economic zones (EEZ). The data are produced by the Columbia University Center for International Earth Science Information Network (CIESIN).

Product Summary

Platforms
MODELS
Instruments
Computer
Spatial Extent

N: 90 S: -90 E: 180 W: -180

Location
GLOBAL
Coordinate System
CARTESIAN
Granule Spatial Representation
CARTESIAN
Temporal Extent
1998-01-01 to 2007-12-31
Data Partner
Earth Science Data Information System (ESDIS)
Concept ID
C3550192741-ESDIS
Data State
COMPLETE
Number of Files/Granules
3
Processing Level
4
Published
Updated
Science Keywords
Chlorophyll ,
Environmental Health Factors

Citation

Citation is critically important for dataset documentation and discovery. This dataset is openly shared, without restriction, in accordance with the EOSDIS Data Use and Citation Guidance.

Copy Citation

Goddard Space Flight Center-GSFC, & Center For International Earth Science Information Network-CIESIN-Columbia University. (2009). Indicators of Coastal Water Quality: Ancillary Data (Version 1.00) [Data set]. Palisades, NY: NASA Socioeconomic Data and Applications Center (SEDAC). https://doi.org/10.7927/H4J96490 Date Accessed: 2026-04-10