1. Page 1GlobColour Meeting – July 10-11, 2006, ESRIN All rights reserved © 2006, ACRI-ST Validation Protocol Updates June 2006 Jo Høkedal and Kai Sørensen

2. Page 2GlobColour Meeting – July 10-11, 2006, ESRIN All rights reserved © 2006, ACRI-ST Changes and updates Change record IssueDateDescriptionChange pages 1.0 15/01/06Validation protocol applicable to GlobCOLOUR validation – v1 Initial version 1.1 27/02/06Includes comments received from ESA and from IOCCG. Identified by change bars 2.0 30/06/06New figure 3.3 Ferrybox Section 5 : updated (sec 5.1) Section 6 : new New version

3. Page 3GlobColour Meeting – July 10-11, 2006, ESRIN All rights reserved © 2006, ACRI-ST Chapter 3.5. Additional datasets

4. Page 4GlobColour Meeting – July 10-11, 2006, ESRIN All rights reserved © 2006, ACRI-ST Updated Fig 3.3

5. Page 5GlobColour Meeting – July 10-11, 2006, ESRIN All rights reserved © 2006, ACRI-ST Chapter 5 Specifics for validation of PPS Update 5.1 Absolute Valdation of the PPS More in situ data in 2002 than 2003 (NOMAD and NILU database). Change of Validation month? –Org: March 2003, June 2003, Sept 2003, Dec. 2003 –New: July 2002, Oct 2002, Jan 2003, April 2003. Any impact on the planned validation?

6. Page 6GlobColour Meeting – July 10-11, 2006, ESRIN All rights reserved © 2006, ACRI-ST Available in situ data (DDS) NOMAD: DDS01 (Hawaii), DD04 (Sargasso Sea), DDS05( Caribian Sea), DD06 (California), DD07 (Gulf of Maine), DD08 (New Jersey), DD09 (Benguela), DD13 (Antartic) NILU: DDS03 (Adriatic Sea), DDS18 (Skagerrak) (not in Document), DDS10 (Helgoland) (Should be available?) Other: DDS02 (Ligurian Sea), DDS11 (English Channel).

7. Page 7GlobColour Meeting – July 10-11, 2006, ESRIN All rights reserved © 2006, ACRI-ST Chap. 6. Specifics for validation of FPS Ten years of daily-, weekly- and monthly-binned level 3 merged data products, generated using the best merging algorithm. The time series will cover the period 1997 (only SeaWiFS available) – 2006 (SeaWiFS, MODIS, MERIS, Parasol data available) FPS will include both level 2 binned input products and level 3 merged products as daily, weekly and monthly averaged products mapped on a common 4.64km grid.

8. Page 8GlobColour Meeting – July 10-11, 2006, ESRIN All rights reserved © 2006, ACRI-ST Chap. 6. Specifics for validation of FPS Open Ocean chlorophyll-a, diffuse attenuation coefficient, and, depending on the selected merging algorithm, possibly –normalised water-leaving radiances (nLw), –CDOM absorption at 443 nm in Case 1 water –Particle backscattering at 443 nm

9. Page 9GlobColour Meeting – July 10-11, 2006, ESRIN All rights reserved © 2006, ACRI-ST Chap. 6. Specifics for validation of FPS Coastal waters Same as for open ocean Case 1, plus : Particle backscattering or total suspended matter (TSM), CDOM absorption produced through Case 1 algorithm, Possibly YSBPA-MERIS type Case 2 product

10. Page 10GlobColour Meeting – July 10-11, 2006, ESRIN All rights reserved © 2006, ACRI-ST Chap. 6. Specifics for validation of FPS Validation phases Absolute validation against in situ data sets Assessment of temporal variability Comparison with other ongoing project, i.e., REASon.