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VIIRS Global Ocean Color Composite Images

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MSL12-NIR (NRT)
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Colorbars
Eval. Products
 

Notes:

  1. VIIRS Near-real-time (NRT) products are produced from original IDPS SDRs
    VIIRS Science-Quality (SCI) products are prodcued from recalibrated Ocean Color (OC) SDRs
  2. VIIRS NRT products before Feb.6, 2012 are not reliable or usable due to VIIRS instrument calibration error in IDPS SDRs.
  3. The VIIRS nominal center wavelengths (different from pre-defined product name) are as follows (units in nm):
    M1:410, M2:443, M3:486, M4:551, M5:671, M6:745, M7:862, M8:1238, M10:1610, M11:2250
  4. The details on VIIRS MSL12-NIR atmospheric correction can be found in Jiang and Wang (2014), Optics Express, doi:10.1364/OE.22.021657
  5. VIIRS MSL12-SWIR uses M8 and M10 as the two atmospheric correction bands.
  6. The VIIRS MSL12 Kd(490) for MSL12 are derived using Wang et al.(2009) algorithm.
  7. VIIRS chlorophyll-a, Kd(490), Kd(PAR) and nLw products are post-processed to remove striping using our distriping package. download here.
  8. Evaluation Products: The VIIRS PAR algorithm was provided by Robert Frouin and implemented in MSL12 by STAR Ocean Color Team.
    The VIIRS IOP products for NOAA-MSL12 are derived using the Quasi-Analytical Algorithm (QAA).