SBC LTER: Ocean: High-resolution Landsat 8 chlorophyll imagery of the Santa Barbara Channel

This is a timeseries of Landsat 8 images of the Santa Barbara Channel, processed for both chlorophyll and particulate backscattering. These data are at a particularly high spatial resolution (30 m), making them useful for analysis of submesoscale biophysical and biogeochemical interactions in the SBC, and for comparison with high-resolution modeling results. Data are contained in netcdf files, and there are 88 images in total, spanning the deployment of Landsat 8 (2013 - present). MATLAB scripts are available to load the netcdf files, flag the bad pixels, interpolate over the flagged pixels, and plot images, in the matlab folder. In addition, Landsat8_chl_imagery.zip contains jpegs of all of the images. A recommended workflow to users would be looking through all the jpegs to decide what images you want, and then downloading those specific netcdf files and using the matlab scripts and accompanying functions to process them. Our hope is that concurrent study of submesoscale variability in phytoplankton biomass via both submesoscale-resolving model studies and high-resolution satellite imagery may reveal further insights into the importance of submesoscale biophysical variability to regional and global biogeochemical processes.