Measurements taken under the Marine Optical Characterization Experiment between 1992 and 1999 off the US and Mexican Pacific coasts and central Pacific Ocean.

A coupled physical-biogeochemical ocean model (the MITgcm with BLING biogeochemistry) is a least squares fit to all available ocean observations in the region of the California Current System. This is accomplished iteratively through the adjoint method, using the methodology developed by the Consortium for Estimating the Circulation and Climate of the Ocean (ECCO). The result is a physically realistic estimate of the ocean state. The model domain extends from 28N to 40N and from 130W to 114W. It has a 1/16-degree horizontal resolution (~7km) and 72 vertical levels.The NASA Carbon Monitoring System (CMS) is designed to make significant contributions in characterizing, quantifying, understanding, and predicting the evolution of global carbon sources and sinks through improved monitoring of carbon stocks and fluxes. The System will use the full range of NASA satellite observations and modeling/analysis capabilities to establish the accuracy, quantitative uncertainties, and utility of products for supporting national and international policy, regulatory, and management activities. CMS will maintain a global emphasis while providing finer scale regional information, utilizing space-based and surface-based data and will rapidly initiate generation and distribution of products both for user evaluation and to inform near-term policy development and planning.

Optical measurements taken in the Southern Ocean in 2002

Measurements made in the southwest Atlantic Ocean spanning 1995 to 2004.

Measurements used to develop the Bio-Optical Algorithm (BOA), taken between 1991 and 1995 in the Northeast Pacific, North Atlantic, Gulf of Mexico, and Arabian Sea.

This dataset contains shipboard bio-optical measurements collected during the Sub-Mesoscale Ocean Dynamics Experiment (S-MODE) conducted approximately 300 km offshore of San Francisco during an intensive operating period (IOP) in Fall 2022. S-MODE aims to understand how ocean dynamics acting on short spatial scales influence the vertical exchange of physical and biological variables in the ocean. Data are available in netCDF format.

Measurements made from the Scripps Ocean Institute pier in 2007.

Measurements taken in the Southern Pacific Ocean by the French research vessel, the Latalante, in 1994