Dataset: phytoplankton climatology

DOI:10.26008/1912/bco-dmo.811147.1
Spatial Extent: N:89.5 E:179.5 S:-77.5 W:-179.5
Project: 
Principal Investigator: 
Adam Martiny (University of California-Irvine, UC Irvine)
Co-Principal Investigator: 
Pedro Flombaum (Universidad de Buenos Aires)
Student: 
Natalia Visintini (Universidad de Buenos Aires)
Contact: 
Natalia Visintini (Universidad de Buenos Aires)
BCO-DMO Data Manager: 
Mathew Biddle (Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution, WHOI BCO-DMO)
Version: 
1
Version Date: 
2020-05-11
Restricted: 
No
Validated: 
No
Current State: 
Final no updates expected

Prochlorococcus, Synechococcus and picoeukaryotic phytoplankton abundance climatology in the global ocean from quantitative niche models.
Abstract: 
Prochlorococcus, Synechococcus and picoeukaryotic phytoplankton estimated mean cell abundance (cells/ml) in 1-degree grids for 25 layers from 0m to 200 m depth. Cell abundance was estimated with quantitative niche models for each lineage (Flombaum et al., 2013; Flombaum et al., 2020), inputs from the monthly mean of temperature and nitrate from the World Ocean Atlas, and PAR from MODIS-Aqua Level-3 Mapped Photosynthetically Available Radiation Data Version 2018.

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Description

Prochlorococcus, Synechococcus and picoeukaryotic phytoplankton estimated mean cell abundance (cells/ml) in 1-degree grids for 25 layers from 0m to 200 m depth. Cell abundance was estimated with quantitative niche models for each lineage (Flombaum et al., 2013; Flombaum et al., 2020), inputs from the monthly mean of temperature and nitrate from the World Ocean Atlas (Boyer et al. 2013), and PAR from MODIS-Aqua Level-3 Mapped Photosynthetically Available Radiation Data Version 2018 (NASA Ocean Biology Processing Group, 2017).

For annual climatology, the annual mean represents the average of the 12 months for each grid cell. 

Data Files
File
Phytoplankton Climatology
filename: picophytoplankton_climatology.zip
(ZIP Archive (ZIP), 32.49 MB)
MD5:a2ebaaa9abcbfb47c2c1cdcc3bae3f9e
Zip package containing annual and monthly global phytoplankton cell abundance (cells/milliliter) climatology in 1-degree grids for 25 layers from 0m to 200m depth. The monthly climatology are found in the respective directory for picoeukaryotic phytoplankton (PEUK), Prochlorococcus (PRO), and Synechococcus (SYN). The annual climatology are found in the annual directory with each data file having the appropriate naming convention for the picophytoplankton type (PEUK, PRO, SYN).
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