Array · collection · 2024
PACE HARP2 Level-2 Regional Aerosol Over Ocean Optical Properties, FastMAPOL Algorithm - Near Real-time (NRT) Data, version 3.0
Listed in NASA Earthdata CMR
The Ocean Biology DAAC produces near real-time (NRT) products using the best-available combination of ancillary data from meteorological and ozone data.
Description
As such, the inputs and the calibration used are less than optimal. Near real-time products provide a snapshot of the data during a short time period within a single orbit.
MAPOL_OCEAN provides simultaneous aerosol and ocean color products using the Fast Multi-Angle Polarimetric Ocean and Land algorithm (FastMAPOL). The retrievals jointly solve for aerosol and ocean parameters with a coupled atmosphere and ocean vector radiative-transfer model, accelerated by deep neural networks to improve speed and accuracy. The retrieved aerosol properties are then used to derive angular water leaving signals through multi-angle atmospheric corrections.
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Use these products for advanced aerosol and ocean color studies, cross-sensor and cross-algorithm data product analysis. Core geophysical variables in this suite include: - Rrs1/Rrs2 — Angular remote sensing reflectance before and after BRDF correction (sr⁻¹) - chla_mapol — Chlorophyll-a concentration (mg m⁻³) - aot / aot_fine / aot_coarse — Aerosol optical thickness for total/fine/coarse mode (unitless) - ssa / ssa_fine / ssa_coarse — Aerosol single scattering albedo for total/fine/coarse mode (unitless) - fmf / fvf — Aerosol fine mode fraction and fine mode volume fraction (unitless) - angstrom — Aerosol Ångström exponent (unitless; reported for 440–670 nm and 440–870 nm) - alh — Aerosol layer height (km) - reff_fine / reff_coarse — Aerosol effective radius for fine/coarse mode (µm) - veff_fine / veff_coarse — Aerosol effective variance for fine/coarse mode (unitless) - sph / sph_fine / sph_coarse — Aerosol spherical fraction for total/fine/coarse mode (unitless) - mr / mi — Real and imaginary parts of aerosol refractive index (unitless; total/fine/coarse modes available) - vd — Aerosol volume density (µm³ µm⁻²; fine/coarse modes and submodes also available) - wind_speed — Ocean surface wind speed (m s⁻¹)
Links
Get the data
- search.earthdata.nasa.gov /search/granules?p=C3652817338-OB_CLOUD ↗
Earthdata Search allows users to search, discover, visualize, refine, and access NASA Earth Observation data.
download · from NASA CMR
- NASA's Ocean Color Web - Data Distribution Site oceandata.sci.gsfc.nasa.gov/directdataaccess/Level-2 ↗
download · from NASA CMR
Documentation and papers
- PACE Homepage earthdata.nasa.gov/data/platforms/space-based-platforms/PACE ↗
documentation · from NASA CMR
- HARP2 Homepage earthdata.nasa.gov/data/instruments/HARP2 ↗
documentation · from NASA CMR
- Data structure file for processing level L2 oceancolor.gsfc.nasa.gov/images/data/pace/txt/HARP2_Level-2_MAPOL_OCEAN_Data_Structure.… ↗
documentation · from NASA CMR
- Sample data file for processing level L2 oceancolor.gsfc.nasa.gov/images/data/pace/sample_data/PACE_HARP2.20250101T000238.L2.MAP… ↗
documentation · from NASA CMR
- nasa.github.io /oceandata-notebooks ↗
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documentation · from NASA CMR
- View the version history of this product. oceancolor.gsfc.nasa.gov/data/reprocessing ↗
documentation · from NASA CMR
Catalogue records · 2
- CMR record cmr.earthdata.nasa.gov/search/concepts/C3652817338-OB_CLOUD.html ↗
catalogue entry · from NASA CMR
- CMR UMM-JSON cmr.earthdata.nasa.gov/search/concepts/C3652817338-OB_CLOUD.umm_json ↗
metadata API · from NASA CMR
Topics
- Stated by source
- Aerosol Optical Depth/Thickness · Aerosol Particle Properties · Chlorophyll Concentration · Hyper-Angular Rainbow Polarimeter 2 · Ocean Color · Plankton, Aerosol, Cloud, ocean Ecosystem mission · Reflectance
- Inferred from text
- Oceanography 73% · Satellite remote sensing 65%
Provenance · 1 source records, 18 field assertions
| Source | Key | Last seen | Raw |
|---|---|---|---|
| NASA Earthdata CMR | C3652817338-OB_CLOUD | 10 d ago | JSON v1 |
| Field | Assertion | Extractor | Evidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| access_level | source · NASA CMR | connector:nasa_cmr@1.0.0 | |
| concepts[field].anzsrc:group:3708 | enrichment · NASA CMR | taxonomy-embedding@1.1.0 | title+keywords+description (73%) |
| concepts[instrument].gcmd_instrument:harp2 | source · NASA CMR | connector:nasa_cmr@1.0.0 | |
| concepts[measured_variable].gcmd:earth-science/atmosphere/aerosols/aerosol-optical-depth-thickness | source · NASA CMR | connector:nasa_cmr@1.0.0 | |
| concepts[measured_variable].gcmd:earth-science/atmosphere/aerosols/aerosol-particle-properties | source · NASA CMR | connector:nasa_cmr@1.0.0 | |
| concepts[measured_variable].gcmd:earth-science/oceans/ocean-optics/chlorophyll/chlorophyll-concentration | source · NASA CMR | connector:nasa_cmr@1.0.0 | |
| concepts[measured_variable].gcmd:earth-science/oceans/ocean-optics/ocean-color | source · NASA CMR | connector:nasa_cmr@1.0.0 | |
| concepts[measured_variable].gcmd:earth-science/oceans/ocean-optics/reflectance | source · NASA CMR | connector:nasa_cmr@1.0.0 | |
| concepts[modality].local:modality:remote-sensing | enrichment · NASA CMR | keyword-concept-rules@1.0.0 | title+description (65%) |
| concepts[platform].gcmd_platform:pace | source · NASA CMR | connector:nasa_cmr@1.0.0 | |
| created_date | source · NASA CMR | connector:nasa_cmr@1.0.0 | |
| description | source · NASA CMR | connector:nasa_cmr@1.0.0 | /umm/Abstract |
| publication_date | source · NASA CMR | connector:nasa_cmr@1.0.0 | |
| spatial | source · NASA CMR | connector:nasa_cmr@1.0.0 | /umm/SpatialExtent |
| temporal | source · NASA CMR | connector:nasa_cmr@1.0.0 | /umm/TemporalExtents |
| title | source · NASA CMR | connector:nasa_cmr@1.0.0 | /umm/EntryTitle |
| updated_date | source · NASA CMR | connector:nasa_cmr@1.0.0 | |
| version_label | source · NASA CMR | connector:nasa_cmr@1.0.0 |