Earth Syst. Sci. Data, 8, 235-252, 2016
www.earth-syst-sci-data.net/8/235/2016/
doi:10.5194/essd-8-235-2016
© Author(s) 2016. CC Attribution 3.0 License.
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A compilation of global bio-optical in situ data for
ocean-colour satellite applications
André Valen teShubha Sathyendranath 2 , Vanda Brotas 1 , Steve Groom 2 , Michael Grant 2 ,
Malcolm Taberner 3 , David Antoine 4 5 , Robert Arnone 6 , William M. Balch 7 , Kathryn Barker 8 ,
Ray Barlow 9 , Simon Bélanger 10 , Jean-François Berthon 11 , §ükrü Be§iktepe 12 , Vittorio Brando 13 14 ,
Elisabetta Canuti 11 , Francisco Chavez 15 , Hervé Claustre 16 , Richard Crout 17 , Robert Frouin 18 ,
Carlos García-Soto 19 20 , Stuart W. Gibb 21 , Richard Gould 17 , Stanford Hooker 22 , Mati Kahru 18 ,
Holger Klein 23 , Susanne Kratzer 24 , Hubert Loisel 25 , David McKee 26 , Brian G. Mitchell 18 ,
Tiffany Moisan 27 , Frank Muller-Karger 28 , Leonie O’Dowd 29 , Michael Ondrusek 30 , Alex J. Poulton 31 ,
Michel Repecaud 32 , Timothy Smyth 2 , Heidi M. Sosik 33 , Michael Twardowski 34 , Kenneth Voss 35 ,
Jeremy Werdell 22 , Marcel Wernand 36 , and Giuseppe Zibordi 11
Marine and Environmental Sciences Centre (MARE), University of Lisbon, Lisbon, Portugal
2 Plymouth Marine Laboratory, Plymouth, PLI 3DH, UK
3 EUMETSAT, Eumetsat-Allee 1, 64295 Darmstadt, Germany
4 Sorbonne Universités, UPMC Univ. Paris 06, CNRS, Laboratoire d’Océanographie de Villefranche,
Villefranche-sur-mer, 06238, France
5 Remote Sensing and Satellite Research Group, Department of Physics, Astronomy and Medical Radiation
Sciences, Curtin University, Perth, WA 6845, Australia
6 University of Southern Mississippi, Stennis Space Center, Kiln, MS, USA
7 Bigelow Laboratory for Ocean Sciences, East Boothbay, ME, USA
8 ARGANS Ltd, Plymouth, UK
9 Bayworld Centre for Research and Education, Cape Town, South Africa
10 Département de biologie, chimie et géographie. Université du Québec à Rimouski,
Rimouski (Québec), Canada
11 European Commission, Joint Research Centre, Ispra, Italy
12 Institute of Marine Science and Technology, Dokuz Eylul University, Izmir, Turkey
13 CSIRO Oceans and Atmosphere, Canberra, Australia
14 CNR IREA, Milan, Italy
15 Monterey Bay Aquarium Research InstiUite, Moss Landing, CA, USA
16 Laboratoire d’Océanographie de Villefranche (LOV), Sorbonne Universités, UPMC Univ Paris 06,
INSU-CNRS, 181 Chemin du Lazaret, 06230 Villefranche-sur-Mer, France
17 Naval Research Laboratory, Stennis Space Center, Kiln, MS, USA
18 Scripps InstiUition of Oceanography, University of California, San Diego, CA, USA
19 Spanish InstiUite of Oceanography (IEO), Corazón de María 8, 28002 Madrid, Spain
20 Plentziako Itsas Estazioa/Euskal Herriko Unibetsitatea (PIE/EHU), Areatza z/g, 48620 Plentzia, Spain
21 Environmental Research Institute, North Highland College, University of the Highlands and Islands,
Thurso, Scotland, UK
22 NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, Greenbelt, Maryland, USA
23 Operational Oceanography Group, Federal Maritime and Hydrographic Agency, Hamburg, Germany
24 Department of Ecology, Environment and Plant Sciences, Frescati Backe, Stockholm University,
106 91 Stockholm, Sweden
25 Laboratoire d’Océanologie et de Géosciences, Université du Littoral - Côte d’Opale,
Maison de la Recherche en Environnement NaUtrel, Wimereux, France
26 Physics Department, University of Strathclyde, Glasgow G4 ONG, Scotland, UK
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