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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.

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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
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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 Datasets

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Dataset Platforms Instruments Temporal Extent Location Keywords Spatial Extent Data Format
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 N: 90 S: -90 E: 180 W: -180 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 N: 90 S: -90 E: 180 W: -180 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 N: 49.9375 S: 34.9792 E: -77.9792 W: -110.021 netCDF-4
L2 Daily Solar-Induced Fluorescence (SIF) from ERS-2 GOME, 1995-2003 ERS-2 GOME 1995-07-01 to 2003-06-22 GLOBAL N: 85.42 S: -84.3661 E: 180 W: -180 multiple
L2 Daily Solar-Induced Fluorescence (SIF) from MetOp-A GOME-2, 2007-2018, V2 METOP-A GOME-2 2007-02-01 to 2018-02-01 GLOBAL LAND N: 89.5996 S: -89.7804 E: 180 W: -180 netCDF-4 classic
L2 Daily Solar-Induced Fluorescence (SIF) from MetOp-B GOME-2, 2013-2021 METOP-B GOME-2 2013-04-01 to 2021-06-07 GLOBAL LAND N: 89.5944 S: -89.7694 E: 180 W: -180 netCDF-4
L2 Solar-Induced Fluorescence (SIF) from SCIAMACHY, 2003-2012 ENVISAT SCIAMACHY 2003-01-01 to 2012-04-08 GLOBAL LAND N: 70 S: -58 E: 180 W: -180 netCDF-4
LBA-ECO LC-07 Amazon Floodplain Lake Chlorophyll from MODIS, Para, Brazil: 2002-2003 Terra MODIS 2002-04-01 to 2003-12-31 AMAZONIA N: -1 S: -3.00025 E: -52.9995 W: -57 GeoTIFF
LBA-ECO LC-07 Water Quality, CO2, Chlorophyll, Lago Curuai, Para, Brazil: 2003-2004 LABORATORY, FIELD INVESTIGATION BALANCE, SPECTROPHOTOMETERS, CONDUCTIVITY METERS, PH METERS, TURBIDITY METERS 2003-09-25 to 2004-06-30 N: -1.8206 S: -2.3389 E: -50.0208 W: -55.8347 CSV
NACP MCI: Cropland Productivity and Biophysical Properties, Nebraska, USA, 2001-2008 FIELD INVESTIGATION, FIXED OBSERVATION STATIONS LICOR LEAF AREA METER, RADIOMETERS, LICOR QUANTUM SENSOR 2001-06-12 to 2008-08-15 N: 41.1797 S: 41.1797 E: -96.4397 W: -96.4766 CSV
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