Supplementary dataset to the publication by Hieronymi et al.: "Ocean color atmospheric correction methods in view of usability for different optical water types", Frontiers in Marine Science (under review, submitted 22 Dec 2022)

• Main Authors: Hieronymi, Martin, Bi, Shun, Müller, Dagmar, Schütt, Eike M., Behr, Daniel, Brockmann, Carsten, Lebreton, Carole, Steinmetz, François, Stelzer, Kerstin, Vanhellemont, Quinten
• Format: Dataset
• Language: English
• Published: 2023
• Subjects: Satellite Remote Sensing; Sentinel-3/OLCI; Atmospheric Correction; Ocean Color; Barents Sea; South Atlantic Ocean
• Online Access: https://zenodo.org/record/7567534; https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.7567534

The dataset is an annex to the publication (under review, submitted 22 Dec 2022): Martin Hieronymi, Shun Bi, Dagmar Müller, Eike M Schütt, Daniel Behr, Carsten Brockmann, Carole Lebreton, François Steinmetz, Kerstin Stelzer and Quinten Vanhellemont: "Ocean color atmospheric correction methods in view of usability for different optical water types", Frontiers in Marine Science. The data were created to compare the results of different atmospheric correction methods for ocean (water) color imagery. The dataset includes ten modified ESA/EUMETSAT Copernicus Sentinel-3 OLCI satellite scenes from optically diverse sea areas worldwide. The NetCDF files are optimized for visualization in the ESA Sentinel Application Platform (SNAP) and especially the Spectrum View. The data include original OLCI Level-1B top-of-atmosphere radiances recorded by the sensor and the results from five different atmospheric correction methods, i.e., spectral remote-sensing reflectance at 16 OLCI bands. The atmospheric correction methods compared are IPF (Collection 3, the standard method), C2RCC (v1.7 including IPF gains; Brockmann et al. [2016]), A4O (v0.23 (2022-01-19); a novel method by Hieronymi et al.), POLYMER (v4.14 (2021-12-17); Steinmetz et al. [2011]), and ACOLITE-DSF (v2022-10-25.0; Vanhellemont and Ruddick [2021]). The original flags supplied in each case are also provided. # Sensor-Date-UTC Region Special features 1 S3A-20160720-092821 Barents Sea High latitudes, bloom of coccolithophores 2 S3A-20160720-093421 North Sea, Wadden Sea Moderately to extremely scattering waters, tidal areas, in situ data 3 S3A-20170114-130626 South Atlantic Ocean, Rio de la Plata estuary Extremely scattering waters, clear oceanic waters, sun glint, South Atlantic Anomaly 4 S3A-20170527-015236 Yellow Sea, East China Sea, Yangtze, Lake Taihu Extremely scattering waters, tidal areas, large rivers, absorbing aerosols, sun glint 5 S3A-20170529-092334 Mediterranean Sea Large areas with clear waters, sun glint 6 S3A-20170913-080730 Black Sea, Aegean Sea ...