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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 Sort descending	Version	Platforms	Instruments	Temporal Extent	Spatial Extent	Spatial Resolution	Data Format
COMS GOCI Level-2 Regional Ocean Color (OC) Data, version 2014.0	2014.0	COMS	GOCI	2010-06-26 to 2021-03-31	N: 90 S: -90 E: 180 W: -180		netCDF-4
Conifer Needle Chlorophyll Fluorescence, Niwot Ridge, Colorado, USA, 2017-2018	1	FIELD SURVEYS	PAM	2017-07-10 to 2018-06-11	N: 40.03 S: 40.03 E: -105.55 W: -105.55		CSV
Conifer Needle Pigment Composition, Niwot Ridge, Colorado, USA, 2017-2018	1	LABORATORY	LIQUID CHROMATOGRAPHS	2017-07-09 to 2018-06-11	N: 40.03 S: 40.03 E: -105.55 W: -105.55		CSV
Ecomapper data for the SPURS-1 N. Atlantic field campaign	1.0	Ecomapper	OXYGEN METERS, FLUOROMETERS, CTD, TURBIDITY METERS	2012-09-29 to 2012-09-30	N: 27 S: 26 E: -38 W: -39	1 Meters x 1 Meters	netCDF-4
ENVISAT MERIS Level-2 Regional Full Resolution, Full Swath (FRS) Ocean Color (OC) Data, version 2022.0	2022.0	ENVISAT	MERIS	2002-03-21 to 2012-05-09	N: 90 S: -90 E: 180 W: -180		netCDF-4
ENVISAT MERIS Level-2 Regional Reduced Resolution (RR) Ocean Color (OC) Data, version 2022.0	2022.0	ENVISAT	MERIS	2002-03-21 to 2012-05-09	N: 90 S: -90 E: 180 W: -180		netCDF-4
ENVISAT MERIS Level-3 Global Binned Chlorophyll (CHL) Data, version 2022.0	2022.0	ENVISAT	MERIS	2002-03-21 to 2012-05-09	N: 90 S: -90 E: 180 W: -180		netCDF-4
ENVISAT MERIS Level-3 Global Mapped Chlorophyll (CHL) Data, version 2022.0	2022.0	ENVISAT	MERIS	2002-03-21 to 2012-05-09	N: 90 S: -90 E: 180 W: -180		netCDF-4
ENVISAT MERIS Level-4 Global Binned Garver-Siegel-Maritorena Model (GSM) Data, version 2022.0	2022.0	ENVISAT	MERIS	2002-03-21 to 2012-05-09	N: 90 S: -90 E: 180 W: -180		netCDF-4
ENVISAT MERIS Level-4 Global Mapped Garver-Siegel-Maritorena Model (GSM) Data, version 2022.0	2022.0	ENVISAT	MERIS	2002-03-21 to 2012-05-09	N: 90 S: -90 E: 180 W: -180		netCDF-4

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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.

Learn More About PACE

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 Sort descending	Description	Services
Earthdata Search	Earthdata Search enables data discovery, search, comparison, visualization, and access across NASA’s Earth science data holdings.	Search and Discovery, Access, Cataloging, Cloud Computing, Downloading
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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