MODIS Derived Chlorophyll a dataset: Seasonal Means

• Main Author: Huang, Z.
• Format: Dataset
• Language: English
• Published: Commonwealth of Australia (Geoscience Australia) 2018
• Subjects: chlorophyll; MODIS; Austral; Southern Ocean
• Online Access: https://dx.doi.org/10.4225/25/5a4d75e308293; http://pid.geoscience.gov.au/dataset/ga/115321

The dataset measures the long-term seasonal means of the chlorophyll a concentrations of ocean surface waters. They are derived from MODIS (aqua) images using NASA's SeaDAS image processing software. The monthly chlorophyll a images between July 2002 and December 2016 are used to calculate the means of the four austral seasons: winter (June, July, and August), spring (September, October and November), summer (December, January and February) and autumn (March, April and May). The extent of the dataset covers the entire Australian EEZ and surrounding waters (including the southern ocean). The unit of the dataset is mg/m3.