PACE OCI Level-2 Regional Ocean Biogeochemical Properties - Near Real-time (NRT) Data, version 3.1

The Ocean Biology DAAC produces near real-time (NRT) products using the best-available combination of ancillary data from meteorological and ozone data. As such, the inputs and the calibration used are less than optimal. Near real-time products provide a snapshot of the data during a short time period within a single orbit. The Ocean Color Biogeochemical (OC_BGC) suite provides satellite-derived biogeochemical properties of the upper ocean, produced from calibrated, atmospherically corrected ocean-color inputs from PACE_OCI. These products characterize carbon pools and ecosystem status. Geophysical variables in this suite include: - carbon_phyto — Phytoplankton carbon biomass (mg m⁻³) - carbon_phyto_unc — Phytoplankton carbon biomass standard uncertainty (mg m⁻³) - chlor_a — Chlorophyll-a concentration (mg m⁻³) - chlor_a_unc — Chlorophyll-a concentration uncertainty (mg m⁻³) - poc — Particulate Organic Carbon (mg m⁻³) ARRAY(0x55d8ccb615f8)