Datasets › AL11
1. Ocean colour (merged)
Copernicus CDS — Satellite Ocean Colour (OC-CCI repackaged)
Copernicus Climate Data Store
Specification
- Code
AL11- Reliability
- A Reliable
- Variables delivered
- Chlorophyll-a, Rrs, Kd490
- Resolution
4 km- Cadence
- Daily / monthly
- Coverage
- 1997-09 → present
- Cost
- FREE
- Login required
- Free CDS account + API key
- Latency
- ~1 month
- CSV direct?
- Via cdsapi → NetCDF → .to_csv()
- Sensor
- ESA Ocean Colour CCI v6 — 4000 m, 30 day revisit
Applicability by site
YES — same data as AL01, different delivery
Regional forcing only
NOT APPLICABLE
Access
- Route
- cdsapi Python client
- Endpoint / asset ID
cds.climate.copernicus.eu → dataset 'satellite-ocean-colour'- Pipeline step
- 2 Download
- Documentation
- https://cds.climate.copernicus.eu/datasets/satellite-ocean-colour
Command
cd 01_Scripts
python 07_algae_api_download.py --sources cdsWhat to watch for
VALIDATION STATUS
Same underlying OC-CCI product
KNOWN LIMITATION
The CDS queue can be slow. ERDDAP (AL01) is faster for small site-level subsets.