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.

To Access Resource:

Questions? Email Resource Support Contact:

  • datahelp@ucar.edu

Temporal Range

  • Begin:  1978
    End:  1986

Keywords

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
Standardized Resource Format HDF
Asset Size 336.694 MB
Legal Constraints

Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License
Access Constraints None
Software Implementation Language N/A

Resource Support Name N/A
Resource Support Email datahelp@ucar.edu
Resource Support Organization N/A
Distributor NSF NCAR Geoscience Data Exchange
Metadata Contact Name N/A
Metadata Contact Email datahelp@ucar.edu
Metadata Contact Organization NSF NCAR Geoscience Data Exchange

Author Physical Oceanography Distributed Active Archive Center, Jet Propulsion Laboratory, NASA
Publisher NSF National Center for Atmospheric Research
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 2025-10-09T01:29:31Z
Metadata Record Identifier edu.ucar.gdex::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. NSF National Center for Atmospheric Research. https://doi.org/10.5065/SGRC-T405. Accessed 11 October 2025.

Harvest Source