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Data Description

    Ocean Color Frontal Products (OC_FRONTAL)
    This collection includes MODIS/Aqua chlorophyll frontal data products. The NOAA Okeanos operational production system produces near real-time chlorophyll frontal products (magnitude and direction), using data from MODIS/Aqua L2 chlorophyll products that are generated in the Okeanos system using the NASA L2gen ocean color algorithm. The chlorophyll frontal products are calculated using the BOA-SNRA algorithm, a combination of the Belkin-O'Reilly Algorithm (BOA) for front detection (Belkin and O'Reilly, 2009), and the Stripe Noise Reduction Algorithm (SNRA) (Belkin et al, 2013). The BOA-SNRA code is included in the CoastWatch ocean color products processing software that was written by the NOAA CoastWatch team. Maps of oceanic chlorophyll fronts can be directly used in marine fisheries, marine conservation, environment protection, and other applications and operations.

Details - Metadata, Documentation

Begin Date 2015-08-01
Platforms Aqua
Spatial Coverage GLOBAL OCEAN
Processing Level Level 3
Data Producer NOAA / NESDIS / OSPO
Themes See Product Details
Metadata Product Details
End Date 2022-10-31
Instruments MODIS
Spatial Resolution 0.1ยบ, 1.1 km
Distribution Format CoastWatch HDF, PNG
Data Steward NOAA / NESDIS / NCEI
Update Frequency asNeeded


Dataset Name


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MODSCW_PYYYYDDD or entire dataset name, where YYYY=4 digit year and DDD=3 digit day of year.
Example: MODSCW_P2014077

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