The Sentinel-5P Ocean Colour (OC) products consist of diffuse attenuation coefficients (Kd) at the UV-AB, UV-A and short blue wavelength range. The retrieval for these products is based on Differential Optical Absorption Spectroscopy (DOAS) extended to the ocean domain (PhytoDOAS). Fit results from the DOAS retrieval are converted into physical quantities using look-up-tables which were established with radiative transfer modelling.
The Kd Ocean Colour processor is developed and maintained by AWI.
Available resources:
| Algorithm Theoretical Basis Document (ATBD) |
| Product User Manual (PUM) |
| Validation Report (VR) |
The dataset does not provide a full timeline and products for several orbits are known to be missing. Information about known acquisition gaps in the data can be found on the Mission Status webpage of Sentinel-5P.
Available product files can be selected and downloaded using the SpatioTemporal Asset Catalog (STAC) browser interface.
This browser interface does not currently support the more advanced search queries made possible by the STAC API. For that you will need to programmatically query the S5P-PAL STAC endpoint.
Questions regarding this service can be send to the ESA EO Support Helpdesk.
This service is provided as part of the Sentinel-5P Product Algorithm Laboratory (S5P-PAL) and contains modified Copernicus Sentinel data processed by S[&]T.
