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Chlorophyll Data Access and Tools

From discovery to visualization, data tools such as Earthdata Search, Panoply, and SeaDAS guide users in making the most of chlorophyll data.

Chlorophyll Datasets

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Dataset Platforms Instruments Temporal Extent Location Keywords Data Format
Conifer Needle Pigment Composition, Niwot Ridge, Colorado, USA, 2017-2018 LABORATORY LIQUID CHROMATOGRAPHS 2017-07-09 to 2018-06-11 COLORADO CSV
Ecomapper data for the SPURS-1 N. Atlantic field campaign Ecomapper OXYGEN METERS, FLUOROMETERS, CTD, TURBIDITY METERS 2012-09-29 to 2012-09-30 NORTH ATLANTIC OCEAN netCDF-4
ENVISAT MERIS Level-3 Global Binned Chlorophyll (CHL) Data, version 2022.0 ENVISAT MERIS 2002-03-21 to 2012-05-09 GLOBAL OCEAN netCDF-4
ENVISAT MERIS Level-3 Global Mapped Chlorophyll (CHL) Data, version 2022.0 ENVISAT MERIS 2002-03-21 to 2012-05-09 GLOBAL OCEAN netCDF-4
Global High-Resolution Estimates of SIF from Fused SCIAMACHY and GOME-2, V2 METOP-A GOME-2, SCIAMACHY 2003-01-01 to 2017-12-31 GLOBAL LAND netCDF-4
High Resolution Global Contiguous SIF Estimates from OCO-2 SIF and MODIS, Version 2 Terra, AQUA, MODELS, OCO-2 MODIS, Computer, SPECTROMETERS 2014-09-01 to 2020-07-31 GLOBAL netCDF-4 classic
High Resolution Land Cover-Specific Solar-Induced Fluorescence, Midwestern USA, 2018 MODELS, Sentinel-5P, Aura Computer, TROPOMI, MODIS 2018-05-02 to 2018-09-23 ILLINOIS, COLORADO, INDIANA, IOWA, KANSAS netCDF-4
Indicators of Coastal Water Quality: Ancillary Data MODELS Computer 1998-01-01 to 2007-12-31 GLOBAL Grid, Shapefile
Indicators of Coastal Water Quality: Annual Chlorophyll-a Concentration 1998-2007 OrbView-2 SeaWiFS 1998-01-01 to 2007-12-31 GLOBAL Grid, GeoTIFF
Indicators of Coastal Water Quality: Change in Chlorophyll-a Concentration 1998-2007 OrbView-2 SeaWiFS 1998-01-01 to 2007-12-31 GLOBAL, ANGOLA, CAMEROON, CONGO, EQUATORIAL GUINEA Excel, CSV, PDF, PNG, WMS
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Featured Water Quality Observation Method: PACE
NASA's Plankton, Aerosol, Cloud, ocean Ecosystem (PACE) platform measures the distribution of phytoplankton, a key indicator of ocean health. Aboard PACE is the Ocean Color Instrument (OCI), a highly advanced optical spectrometer used to measure substances or particles present in seawater such as chlorophyll, a green pigment found in most phytoplankton species. Monitoring global chlorophyll and phytoplankton distribution and abundance help us better understand water quality and the complex systems that drive ocean ecology.
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This is an image showing simulated chlorophyll concentrations in the ocean on March 21, 2022. The image has a black background. Regions colored in blue represent areas of low chlorophyll concentration, green are medium, and red areas have high levels. The image has strips of black running through the colored areas from the upper left to the lower right to show PACE’s orbital track around the globe and places across the ocean where it has not scanned.

Preparing for PACE Data

Simulated data help Plankton, Aerosol, Cloud, ocean Ecosystem (PACE) users prepare a day in the life of the new satellite.
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An artist's illustration of the SWOT satellite orbiting over clouds, land, and ocean across the Earth below.

Preparing for Oceans of Data

Careful calibration and validation ensure that the Surface Water and Ocean Topography mission will provide the best data possible.
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This rectangular image shows phytoplankton levels along Florida and the East Coast of the United States, the Bahamas, and Cuba. Land is colored in muted shades of brown and green, water is dark blue, and snow is white. Nearshore are bands of light to dark green depicting picoeukaryote organism levels. Further out to sea are regions in variations of light blue showing the presences of prochlorococcus cyanobacteria.

New PACE Data Tutorials

A series of Jupyter notebook tutorials show how to retrieve and use data from NASA's Plankton, Aerosol, Cloud, ocean Ecosystem (PACE) mission.

Chlorophyll Data Tools

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Tool Description Services
STREAM STREAM is a rapid water quality monitoring tool that processes satellite imagery to create maps showing chlorophyll-a, Total Suspended Solids, and water clarity at 20-30 meter resolution. Processing
Worldview Worldview offers the capability to interactively browse over 1,200 global, full-resolution satellite imagery layers and download the underlying data. Analysis, Search and Discovery, Visualization, Access, Comparison, Monitoring Natural Events
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