Nimbus 7 Coastal Zone Color Scanner Pigment Concentration

Ocean surface color is used to estimate surface pigment concentration (chlorophyll). Based on the Nimbus 7 satellite data for 1978-1986, taken from "Monthly Mean Distributions of Satellite-Derived Sea Surface Temperature and Pigment Concentration", Version 1.

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Temporal Range

  • Begin:  1978
    End:  1986

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Resource Type dataset
Temporal Range Begin 1978
Temporal Range End 1986
Temporal Resolution N/A
Bounding Box North Lat N/A
Bounding Box South Lat N/A
Bounding Box West Long N/A
Bounding Box East Long N/A
Spatial Representation N/A
Spatial Resolution N/A
Related Links N/A
Additional Information N/A
Resource Format HDF4 (Binary)
Standardized Resource Format HDF
Asset Size 336.00 MB
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Resource Support Name Chi-Fan Shih
Resource Support Email chifan@ucar.edu
Resource Support Organization UCAR/NCAR - Research Data Archive
Distributor NCAR Research Data Archive
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Metadata Contact Email rdahelp@ucar.edu
Metadata Contact Organization NCAR Research Data Archive

Author Physical Oceanography Distributed Active Archive Center, Jet Propulsion Laboratory, NASA
Publisher Research Data Archive at the National Center for Atmospheric Research, Computational and Information Systems Laboratory
Publication Date 1995-11-13
Digital Object Identifier (DOI) https://doi.org/10.5065/SGRC-T405
Alternate Identifier d746000
Resource Version N/A
Topic Category oceans
Progress completed
Metadata Date 2024-08-04T02:11:42Z
Metadata Record Identifier edu.ucar.rda::d746000
Metadata Language eng; USA
Suggested Citation Physical Oceanography Distributed Active Archive Center, Jet Propulsion Laboratory, NASA. (1995). Nimbus 7 Coastal Zone Color Scanner Pigment Concentration. Research Data Archive at the National Center for Atmospheric Research, Computational and Information Systems Laboratory. https://doi.org/10.5065/SGRC-T405. Accessed 20 August 2025.

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