Proposed Recipes for MODIS particulate backscattering at 443

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Dataset Name

MODIS Aqua particulate backscattering at 443

Dataset URL

https://oceandata.sci.gsfc.nasa.gov/api/file_search/

Description

Particulate backscattering estimated via spectral inversion of ocean-color derived remote-sensing reflectance is related to the phytoplankton biomass and communities in the surface ocean.

License

Unknown

Data Format

NetCDF

Data Format (other)

No response

Access protocol

HTTP(S)

Source File Organization

• Daily files for April 2022
• 4km resolution

Example URLs

file search URL:
https://oceandata.sci.gsfc.nasa.gov/api/file_search/

Authorization

NASA Earthdata Login

Transformation / Processing

The files should be concatenated along the time dimension.

Target Format

Zarr

Comments

Particulate backscattering from MODIS Aqua will be one of four parameters concatenated for use a input to a diatom biomass prediction algorithm.