Data Access Form

Dataset Title:	Chlorophyll-a, Orbview-2 SeaWiFS, 0.1°, Global, 1997-2010 (8 Day Composite) DEPRECATED
Institution:	NOAA NMFS SWFSC ERD (Dataset ID: erdSWchla8day)
Information:	Summary \| License \| FGDC \| ISO 19115 \| Metadata \| Background \| Files \| Make a graph

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Dimensions	Size	Spacing
time (Centered Time, UTC)	570	8 days 12h 18m 59s (uneven)

altitude (m)	1	(just one value)

latitude (degrees_north)	2160	0.08337193 (even)

longitude (degrees_east)	4320	0.08335263 (even)

Grid Variables (which always also download all of the dimension variables)

chlorophyll (Concentration Of Chlorophyll In Sea Water, mg m-3)

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The Dataset Attribute Structure (.das) for this Dataset

Attributes {
  time {
    String _CoordinateAxisType "Time";
    Float64 actual_range 8.731584e+8, 1.29168e+9;
    String axis "T";
    Int32 fraction_digits 0;
    String ioos_category "Time";
    String long_name "Centered Time";
    String standard_name "time";
    String time_origin "01-JAN-1970 00:00:00";
    String units "seconds since 1970-01-01T00:00:00Z";
  }
  altitude {
    String _CoordinateAxisType "Height";
    String _CoordinateZisPositive "up";
    Float64 actual_range 0.0, 0.0;
    String axis "Z";
    Int32 fraction_digits 0;
    String ioos_category "Location";
    String long_name "Altitude";
    String positive "up";
    String standard_name "altitude";
    String units "m";
  }
  latitude {
    String _CoordinateAxisType "Lat";
    Float64 actual_range -90.0, 90.0;
    String axis "Y";
    String coordsys "geographic";
    Int32 fraction_digits 4;
    String ioos_category "Location";
    String long_name "Latitude";
    String point_spacing "even";
    String standard_name "latitude";
    String units "degrees_north";
  }
  longitude {
    String _CoordinateAxisType "Lon";
    Float64 actual_range 0.0, 360.0;
    String axis "X";
    String coordsys "geographic";
    Int32 fraction_digits 4;
    String ioos_category "Location";
    String long_name "Longitude";
    String point_spacing "even";
    String standard_name "longitude";
    String units "degrees_east";
  }
  chlorophyll {
    Float32 _FillValue -9999999.0;
    Float64 colorBarMaximum 30.0;
    Float64 colorBarMinimum 0.03;
    String colorBarScale "Log";
    String coordsys "geographic";
    Int32 fraction_digits 2;
    String ioos_category "Ocean Color";
    String long_name "Concentration Of Chlorophyll In Sea Water";
    Float32 missing_value -9999999.0;
    String standard_name "concentration_of_chlorophyll_in_sea_water";
    String units "mg m-3";
  }
  NC_GLOBAL {
    String acknowledgement "NOAA NESDIS COASTWATCH, NOAA SWFSC ERD";
    String cdm_data_type "Grid";
    String composite "true";
    String contributor_name "NASA/GSFC/DAAC, GeoEye";
    String contributor_role "Source of level 2 data.";
    String Conventions "COARDS, CF-1.6, ACDD-1.3";
    String creator_email "erd.data@noaa.gov";
    String creator_name "NOAA NMFS SWFSC ERD";
    String creator_type "institution";
    String creator_url "https://www.pfeg.noaa.gov";
    String date_created "2011-12-04";
    String date_issued "2011-12-04";
    Float64 Easternmost_Easting 360.0;
    Float64 geospatial_lat_max 90.0;
    Float64 geospatial_lat_min -90.0;
    Float64 geospatial_lat_resolution 0.08337193144974525;
    String geospatial_lat_units "degrees_north";
    Float64 geospatial_lon_max 360.0;
    Float64 geospatial_lon_min 0.0;
    Float64 geospatial_lon_resolution 0.08335262792313035;
    String geospatial_lon_units "degrees_east";
    Float64 geospatial_vertical_max 0.0;
    Float64 geospatial_vertical_min 0.0;
    String geospatial_vertical_positive "up";
    String geospatial_vertical_units "m";
    String history 
"NASA/GSFC/DAAC, GeoEye
2011-12-04T11:39:18Z NOAA CoastWatch (West Coast Node) and NOAA SFSC ERD
2024-12-03T17:26:33Z (local files)
2024-12-03T17:26:33Z https://coastwatch.pfeg.noaa.gov/erddap/griddap/erdSWchla8day.das";
    String infoUrl "https://coastwatch.pfeg.noaa.gov/infog/SW_chla_las.html";
    String institution "NOAA NMFS SWFSC ERD";
    String keywords "altitude, center, chemistry, chla, chlorophyll, chlorophyll-a, coast, coastwatch, color, concentration, concentration_of_chlorophyll_in_sea_water, data, degrees, Earth Science > Oceans > Ocean Chemistry > Chlorophyll, field, field-of-view, flight, global, goddard, gsfc, noaa, node, ocean, ocean color, oceans, orbview, orbview-2, sea, sea-wide, seawater, seawifs, sensor, space, SWchla, time, view, water, wcn, west, wide";
    String keywords_vocabulary "GCMD Science Keywords";
    String license 
"The data may be used and redistributed for free but is not intended
for legal use, since it may contain inaccuracies. Neither the data
Contributor, ERD, NOAA, nor the United States Government, nor any
of their employees or contractors, makes any warranty, express or
implied, including warranties of merchantability and fitness for a
particular purpose, or assumes any legal liability for the accuracy,
completeness, or usefulness, of this information.";
    String naming_authority "gov.noaa.pfeg.coastwatch";
    Float64 Northernmost_Northing 90.0;
    String origin "NASA/GSFC/DAAC, GeoEye";
    String processing_level "3";
    String project "CoastWatch (https://coastwatch.noaa.gov/)";
    String projection "geographic";
    String projection_type "mapped";
    String publisher_email "erd.data@noaa.gov";
    String publisher_name "NOAA NMFS SWFSC ERD";
    String publisher_type "institution";
    String publisher_url "https://www.pfeg.noaa.gov";
    String references "SeaWiFS information: https://oceancolor.gsfc.nasa.gov/SeaWiFS/ . NASA Ocean Color information: https://oceancolor.gsfc.nasa.gov/ . Processing reference: O'Reilly, J.E., Maritorena, S., Mitchell, B.G., Siegel, D.A., Carder, K.L., Garver, S.A., Kahru, M. and McClain, C. (1998). Ocean color chlorophyll algorithms for SeaWiFS. J. Geophys. Res., 103: 24, 937-24, 953. Processing reference: O'Reilly, J. E., and 21 others. 2000. Ocean color chlorophyll a algorithms for SeaWiFS, OC2 and OC4: Version 4. SeaWiFS Postlaunch Calibration and Validation Analyses, part 3. NASA SeaWiFS technical report series. pp. 8 226 22. Processing reference: Fu, G., Baith, K. S., and McClain, C. R. (1998). SeaDAS: The SeaWiFS Data Analysis System. Proceedings of \"The 4th Pacific Ocean Remote Sensing Conference\", Qingdao, China, July 28-31, 1998, 73-79. Validation reference: Hooker, S.B., and C.R. McClain (2000). The Calibration and Validation of SeaWiFS Data. Prog. Oceanogr., 45, 427-465.";
    String satellite "Orbview-2";
    String sensor "SeaWiFS HRPT";
    String source "satellite observation: Orbview-2, SeaWiFS HRPT";
    String sourceUrl "(local files)";
    Float64 Southernmost_Northing -90.0;
    String standard_name_vocabulary "CF Standard Name Table v70";
    String summary 
"THIS VERSION IS DEPRECATED. SEE THE NEW R2018.0 VERSION IN erdSW2018chla8day. (Feb 2018) 
NASA GSFC Ocean Color Web distributes science-quality chlorophyll-a concentration data from the Sea-viewing Wide Field-of-view Sensor (SeaWiFS) on the Orbview-2 satellite.";
    String time_coverage_end "2010-12-07T00:00:00Z";
    String time_coverage_start "1997-09-02T00:00:00Z";
    String title "Chlorophyll-a, Orbview-2 SeaWiFS, 0.1°, Global, 1997-2010 (8 Day Composite) DEPRECATED";
    Float64 Westernmost_Easting 0.0;
  }
}

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