Light (PAR) at the sea surface - Europe-wide

Raster showing the average photosynthetic active radiation (PAR) at the sea surface between 2005 and 2009, values in mol.phot.m^-2.d^-1.



Created for use in the 2019 EUSeaMap, and updated in 2018 in order to cover Iceland and the Barents Sea. In 2022 the coverage was extended to the Caspian Sea. Dataset's spatial extent covers European Seas including the Azores and Canary Islands, but excluding the eastern Baltic.



Created by ACRI-ST under contract to the EMODnet Seabed Habitats consortium using data from the European Space Agency MERIS instrument.



From Salquin et al (2013): "Daily mean PAR (in mol┬Àphotons┬Àd-1┬Àm-2) was evaluated using the algorithm developed by Frouin in 1989 and updated in 2011 for MERIS using Level 1 Reduced Resolution [1km]. The daily fields are averaged temporally over the period 2005 to 2009."

Simple

Date (Publication)
2016-05-19T10:40:00
Presentation form
Digital map
Purpose

Created for use in modelling of biological zones for EUSeaMap 2016
Credit

EMODnet Seabed Habitats, derived by ACRI-ST from the European Space Agencies (ESA) MERIS project
Status
Completed
Point of contact
Organisation name Individual name Electronic mail address Role

Ifremer

Mickael Vasquez

Mickael.Vasquez@ifremer.fr

Originator
Maintenance and update frequency
As needed
Theme

  • Light

  • Earth observation

  • Surface

  • PAR

  • Marine habitat mapping

  • Light at the sea surface

GEMET - INSPIRE themes, version 1.0

  • Habitats and biotopes
Use limitation

Data is freely available for research or commercial use providing that the originators are acknowledged in any publications produced

Access constraints
Copyright
Spatial representation type
Grid
Denominator
400000
Distance
1000  m
Language

eng
Character set
UTF8
Topic category
  • Environment
Begin date
2005-01-01T10:52:00
End date
2009-12-31T10:52:00
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Vertical extent

Minimum value
0
Maximum value
0
Reference system identifier
WGS 1984
Distribution format
Name Version

GeoTiff

unknown
OnLine resource
Protocol Linkage Name

WWW:LINK-1.0-http--link

 		https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S0034425712003847

Article: Estimation of light attenuation

WWW:LINK-1.0-http--link

 		https://files.emodnet-seabedhabitats.eu/data/surface_par_all_europe.zip

EMODnet Seabed Habitats download
Hierarchy level
Dataset

Conformance result

Date
Pass
No

Conformance result

Date (Publication)
Pass

Metadata

File identifier
875f6a42-a759-4682-ad2a-e679ff55fed4 XML
Metadata language

eng
Character set
UTF8
Date stamp
2020-04-14T10:32:56Z
Metadata standard name

ISO 19115:2003/19139
Metadata standard version

1.0
Metadata author
Organisation name Individual name Electronic mail address Role

JNCC

emodnetseabedhabitats@jncc.gov.uk

Point of contact
 
 

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Keywords

Earth observation Light Light at the sea surface Marine habitat mapping PAR Surface
GEMET - INSPIRE themes, version 1.0

Habitats and biotopes


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