Global monthly mean chlorophyll a surface concentrations from August 2002 to April 2012 for diatoms, coccolithophores and cyanobacteria from PhytoDOAS algorithm version 3.3 applied to SCIAMACHY data, link to NetCDF files in ZIP archive

This phytoplankton group (PFT) concentration a (Chl a) data are output from the algorithm PhytoDOAS version 3.3 applied to SCIAMACHY data from 2 Aug 2002 to 8 Apr 2012. Data have been gridded monthly on 0.5° latitude to 0.5°. For cyanobacteria (includes all prokaryotic phytoplankton) and diatoms the PhytoDOAS PFT retrieval algorithm by Bracher et al. (2009) and for coccolithophores the algorithm by Sadeghi et al. (2012) have been used. However, these methods have slightly been improved which includes: […]