Gap-Filled Phytoplankton Functional Types (PFT) Dataset Using the DINCAE Method for Selected Regions Along an Atlantic Ocean Transect (2016-04-25 to 2019-04-25)

These datasets contain gap-filled satellite products of total chlorophyll-a and chlorophyll-a concentrations for five major phytoplankton functional types (PFTs) across ten defined areas in the Atlantic Ocean, following the RV Polarstern PS113 expedition track. The data were reconstructed over a three-year period, from April 25, 2016, to April 25, 2019. The missing data were reconstructed using the Data-Interpolating Convolutional Auto-Encoder (DINCAE) gap-filling method. The five PFTs included are diatoms, dinoflagellates, haptophytes, green algae, and prokaryotic phytoplankton, labelled in the dataset as DIATO, DINO, HAPTO, GREEN, and PROKAR, respectively. Total Chlorophyll-a is labelled as CHL in the dataset. Geographic boundaries of the Areas Area Lat Min Lat Max Lon Min Lon Max 1 -49.77 -40.35 -63.23 -50.90 2 -42.31 -33.15 -52.85 -41.77 3 -35.10 -24.02 -44.52 -34.56 4 -25.98 -14.02 -38.60 -28.65 5 -15.94 -3.94 -33.48 -23.52 6 -5.90 7.56 -29.98 -20.02 7 5.60 19.77 -27.60 -17.65 8 17.81 31.52 -22.94 -12.98 9 29.56 44.52 -17.65 -7.69 10 42.56 51.94 -11.60 2.44