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Dataset Title:  Chlorophyll a Concentration, SeaWIFS - Monthly, 1997-2010. v.2018.0 Subscribe RSS
Institution:  NASA/GSFC OBPG   (Dataset ID: sw_chla_monthly_2018_0)
Information:  Summary ? | License ? | FGDC | ISO 19115 | Metadata | Background (external link) | Data Access Form
 
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Things You Can Do With Your Graphs

Well, you can do anything you want with your graphs, of course. But some things you might not have considered are:

The Dataset Attribute Structure (.das) for this Dataset

Attributes {
  time {
    String _CoordinateAxisType "Time";
    Float64 actual_range 8.744112e+8, 1.2925008e+9;
    String axis "T";
    String ioos_category "Time";
    String long_name "Centered Time";
    String standard_name "time";
    String time_origin "01-JAN-1970 00:00:00";
    String units "seconds since 1970-01-01T00:00:00Z";
  }
  latitude {
    String _CoordinateAxisType "Lat";
    Float32 _FillValue NaN;
    Float32 actual_range -89.95834, 89.95834;
    String axis "Y";
    String ioos_category "Location";
    String long_name "Latitude";
    String standard_name "latitude";
    String units "degrees_north";
    Float32 valid_max 90.0;
    Float32 valid_min -90.0;
  }
  longitude {
    String _CoordinateAxisType "Lon";
    Float32 _FillValue NaN;
    Float32 actual_range 0.04166667, 359.9583;
    String axis "X";
    String ioos_category "Location";
    String long_name "Longitude";
    String standard_name "longitude";
    String units "degrees_east";
    Float32 valid_max 360.0;
    Float32 valid_min 0.0;
  }
  chlor_a {
    Float32 _FillValue NaN;
    Float64 colorBarMaximum 30.0;
    Float64 colorBarMinimum 0.03;
    String colorBarScale "Log";
    String ioos_category "Ocean Color";
    String long_name "Chlorophyll Concentration, OCI Algorithm";
    String references "Hu, C., Lee Z., and Franz, B.A. (2012). Chlorophyll-a algorithms for oligotrophic oceans: A novel approach based on three-band reflectance difference, J. Geophys. Res., 117, C01011, doi:10.1029/2011JC007395.";
    String standard_name "concentration_of_chlorophyll_in_sea_water";
    String units "mg m-3";
    Float32 valid_max 100.0;
    Float32 valid_min 0.001;
  }
  NC_GLOBAL {
    String _lastModified "2018-01-31T04:58:26.000Z";
    String _NCProperties "version=1|netcdflibversion=4.4.1.1|hdf5libversion=1.8.18";
    String cdm_data_type "Grid";
    String Conventions "CF-1.6 ACDD-1.3, COARDS";
    String creator_email "data@oceancolor.gsfc.nasa.gov";
    String creator_name "NASA/GSFC/OBPG";
    String creator_type "group";
    String creator_url "https://oceandata.sci.gsfc.nasa.gov";
    String date_created "2018-01-31T04:58:26Z";
    Float64 Easternmost_Easting 359.9583;
    Float64 geospatial_lat_max 89.95834;
    Float64 geospatial_lat_min -89.95834;
    String geospatial_lat_units "degrees_north";
    Float64 geospatial_lon_max 359.9583;
    Float64 geospatial_lon_min 0.04166667;
    String geospatial_lon_units "degrees_east";
    String grid_mapping_name "latitude_longitude";
    String history 
"Thu Feb  6 13:02:28 2020: ncatted -O -a sw_point_longitude,global,o,f,0.04166667 S20103352010365.L3m_MO_CHL_chlor_a_9km-0-360.nc
Thu Feb  6 13:02:28 2020: ncatted -O -a geospatial_lon_min,global,o,f,0.0 S20103352010365.L3m_MO_CHL_chlor_a_9km-0-360.nc
Thu Feb  6 13:02:28 2020: ncatted -O -a geospatial_lon_max,global,o,f,360.0 S20103352010365.L3m_MO_CHL_chlor_a_9km-0-360.nc
Thu Feb  6 13:02:28 2020: ncatted -O -a easternmost_longitude,global,o,f,360.0 S20103352010365.L3m_MO_CHL_chlor_a_9km-0-360.nc
Thu Feb  6 13:02:28 2020: ncatted -O -a westernmost_longitude,global,o,f,0.0 S20103352010365.L3m_MO_CHL_chlor_a_9km-0-360.nc
Thu Feb  6 13:02:28 2020: ncatted -O -a valid_max,lon,o,f,360.0 S20103352010365.L3m_MO_CHL_chlor_a_9km-0-360.nc
Thu Feb  6 13:02:28 2020: ncatted -O -a valid_min,lon,o,f,0.0 S20103352010365.L3m_MO_CHL_chlor_a_9km-0-360.nc
Thu Feb  6 13:02:27 2020: ncap2 -O -s where(lon<0) lon=lon+360 S20103352010365.L3m_MO_CHL_chlor_a_9km-0-360.nc S20103352010365.L3m_MO_CHL_chlor_a_9km-0-360.nc
Thu Feb  6 13:02:26 2020: ncks -O --msa_usr_rdr -d lon,0.0,180.0 -d lon,-180.0,0.0 S20103352010365.L3m_MO_CHL_chlor_a_9km.nc S20103352010365.L3m_MO_CHL_chlor_a_9km-0-360.nc
l3mapgen par=S20103352010365.L3m_MO_CHL_chlor_a_9km.nc.param 
2024-03-28T15:05:11Z (local files)
2024-03-28T15:05:11Z https://oceanwatch.pifsc.noaa.gov/griddap/sw_chla_monthly_2018_0.das";
    String id "S20103352010365.L3b_MO_CHL.nc/L3/S20103352010365.L3b_MO_CHL.nc";
    String identifier_product_doi "10.5067/ORBVIEW-2/SEAWIFS/L3M/CHL/2018";
    String identifier_product_doi_authority "https://dx.doi.org";
    String infoUrl "https://oceandata.sci.gsfc.nasa.gov";
    String institution "NASA/GSFC OBPG";
    String instrument "SeaWiFS";
    String keywords "algorithm, biology, center, chemistry, chlor_a, chlorophyll, chlorophyllr, color, concentration, concentration_of_chlorophyll_in_sea_water, data, earth, Earth Science > Oceans > Ocean Chemistry > Chlorophyll, Earth Science > Oceans > Ocean Chemistry > Chlorophyllr, Earth Science > Oceans > Ocean Chemistry > Pigments > Chlorophyll, field, field-of-view, flight, goddard, group, gsfc, image, L3, level, level-3, mapped, nasa, obpg, ocean, ocean color, oceans, oci, palette, pigments, processing, science, sea, sea-wide, seawater, seawifs, sensor, smi, space, standard, view, water, wide";
    String keywords_vocabulary "GCMD Science Keywords";
    String l2_flag_names "ATMFAIL,LAND,HILT,HISATZEN,STRAYLIGHT,CLDICE,COCCOLITH,LOWLW,CHLWARN,CHLFAIL,NAVWARN,MAXAERITER,ATMWARN,HISOLZEN,NAVFAIL,FILTER,HIGLINT";
    String license "https://science.nasa.gov/earth-science/earth-science-data/data-information-policy/";
    String map_projection "Equidistant Cylindrical";
    String measure "Mean";
    String naming_authority "gov.nasa.gsfc.sci.oceandata";
    String NCO "4.3.7";
    Int32 nco_openmp_thread_number 1;
    Float64 Northernmost_Northing 89.95834;
    String platform "Orbview-2";
    String processing_level "L3 Mapped";
    String processing_version "2018.0";
    String product_name "S20103352010365.L3m_MO_CHL_chlor_a_9km.nc";
    String project "Ocean Biology Processing Group (NASA/GSFC/OBPG)";
    String publisher_email "data@oceancolor.gsfc.nasa.gov";
    String publisher_name "NASA/GSFC/OBPG";
    String publisher_type "group";
    String publisher_url "https://oceandata.sci.gsfc.nasa.gov";
    String sourceUrl "(local files)";
    Float64 Southernmost_Northing -89.95834;
    String spatialResolution "9.28 km";
    String standard_name_vocabulary "CF Standard Name Table v36";
    String summary "Sea-Wide Field-of-View Sensor (SeaWiFS) - Monthly Ocean Color. Chlorophyll-a Concentration. 1997 - 2010. spatial resolution = 9.28km";
    String temporal_range "10-day";
    String time_coverage_end "2010-12-16T12:00:00Z";
    String time_coverage_start "1997-09-16T12:00:00Z";
    String title "Chlorophyll a Concentration, SeaWIFS - Monthly, 1997-2010. v.2018.0";
    Float64 Westernmost_Easting 0.04166667;
  }
}

 

Using griddap to Request Data and Graphs from Gridded Datasets

griddap lets you request a data subset, graph, or map from a gridded dataset (for example, sea surface temperature data from a satellite), via a specially formed URL. griddap uses the OPeNDAP (external link) Data Access Protocol (DAP) (external link) and its projection constraints (external link).

The URL specifies what you want: the dataset, a description of the graph or the subset of the data, and the file type for the response.

griddap request URLs must be in the form
https://coastwatch.pfeg.noaa.gov/erddap/griddap/datasetID.fileType{?query}
For example,
https://coastwatch.pfeg.noaa.gov/erddap/griddap/jplMURSST41.htmlTable?analysed_sst[(2015-06-09T09:00:00Z)][(-89.99):1000:(89.99)][(-179.99):1000:(180.0)]
Thus, the query is often a data variable name (e.g., analysed_sst), followed by [(start):stride:(stop)] (or a shorter variation of that) for each of the variable's dimensions (for example, [time][latitude][longitude]).

For details, see the griddap Documentation.


 
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