CANONICAL MARINE PARAMETER
Chlorophyll-a concentration
Concentration of chlorophyll-a pigment in water, measured directly or estimated from calibrated optical/satellite algorithms.
- Canonical key
chlorophyll_a- Parameter family
- Biological / optical
- Scientific category
- Bio-optical
- Canonical unit
- mg m-3 / ug L-1
- CF standard name / vocabulary
- mass_concentration_of_chlorophyll_a_in_sea_water
- Vertical domain
- water column/surface
- Required qualifiers
- method=lab/fluorometric/satellite; algorithm
- Merge policy
- CONDITIONAL
- Mapped sources
- 9
Marine observation sources
The following registered sources have indexed metadata mappings for this parameter. Consult the registry details for each mapping's verification and review status.
- BGC-Argo Argo / BGC-Argo
- NOAA National Data Buoy Center (NDBC) NOAA NDBC
- OceanSITES OceanSITES / GDACs
- World Ocean Database (WOD) NOAA NCEI / IODE
- Copernicus Marine Global In-Situ Copernicus Marine Service
- GLODAPv3 GLODAP community / NOAA OCADS
- Copernicus Marine satellite observations Copernicus Marine Service
- NOAA CoastWatch NOAA NESDIS / CoastWatch
- NASA Ocean Biology DAAC (OB.DAAC) / OceanColor NASA GSFC