MARINE OBSERVATION SOURCE · S025
SeaBASS
Discover marine observations available through SeaBASS, including parameters, platforms, spatial and temporal coverage, metadata, and access methods.
- Operator
- NASA Ocean Biology Processing Group
- Role
- In-situ ocean color / bio-optical archive
- Platforms
- Ships; moorings; field campaigns; optical systems
- Observed variables
- Rrs/radiance; absorption/scattering/backscatter; pigments/chlorophyll; CTD; nutrients; fluorescence; productivity; plankton imagery; atmospheric optics
- Spatial coverage
- Global field campaigns
- Period
- Campaign-dependent; multi-decadal archive
- Depth coverage
- Surface and profile measurements; searchable by water depth; variable-dependent
- QC and data mode
- Submission/QC standards; validation-oriented
- Access method
- Use File Search, select products/date/bbox/depth, then Download All/Selection
- Indexed download targets
- 14
Canonical parameters
- Water depth / bottom depth
bottom_depth - Diffuse attenuation coefficient
diffuse_attenuation - Downwelling irradiance
downwelling_irradiance - Sea-water conductivity
electrical_conductivity - Photosynthetically available radiation (PAR)
par - Particulate backscattering coefficient
particulate_backscatter - Practical salinity
practical_salinity - Remote-sensing reflectance (Rrs)
remote_sensing_reflectance - Observation depth
sample_depth - Sea-surface temperature
sea_surface_temperature - Sea-water temperature
sea_water_temperature - Significant wave height
significant_wave_height - Suspended particulate matter
suspended_particulate_matter - Total backscattering coefficient
total_backscatter
Discovery and access
One of the few archives where depth and optical product type are native search dimensions.