Products

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Questions or comments: please contact stephane@eri.ucsb.edu and fields@eri.ucsb.edu

• GSM Products
  Products based on the Garver-Siegel-Maritorena remote-sensing-reflectance-spectrum inversion method, including chlorophyll a, CDM (absorption coefficient of CDOM+detritus at 443 nm) and particulate backscattering (coefficient at 443 nm). Global data available in SeaWiFS,Meris, MODIS Aqua, Meris, and merged data products (Maritorena et al., 2002; Maritorena and Siegel, 2005; Maritorena et al., 2010).


• NPP Products
  Primary productivity products from VGPM and CBPM (Behrenfeld and Falkowski, 1997; Behrenfeld et al., 2005; Westberry et al., 2008)). Global data available in SeaWiFS and MODIS Aqua - based data products.


• QAA Products
  Inherent Optical properties from the Quasi-Analytical Algorithm (Lee et al., 2002). Now available from the NASA OceanColor Web (http://oceancolor.gsfc.nasa.gov/).


• Future products
  • Particle Size Distribution Products
    Kostadinov, T.S., D.A.Siegel, & S. Maritorena (2009) from SeaWiFS monthly Rrs
  
  
  • K_d(λ, UV)
  • PFT, Phytoplankton Functional Types