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Please note:

The Ocean Productivity Site has stopped updating its data.
We hope to continue operations shortly.

(09.12.2024)


Input Data: PAR

1080 by 2160 8day HDF files from MODIS R2022 Data

note: (08.21.2024) data updated back to the start of 2021 using the new MODIS.R2022.0.1 reprocessing results

note: all data updated 03.20.2023 using the new MODIS.R2022 reprocessing results
note: all data updated 02.20.2018 using the new MODIS.R2018 reprocessing results
note: all data updated 08.04.2015 using the new MODIS.R2014 reprocessing results
note: data updated 11.11.2013 using the new MODIS.R2013.1 reprocessing results
data files starting with 2012209 are all new ... data before that are unchanged
note: data updated 4.24.2013 using the new MODIS.R2013 reprocessing results
data files starting with 2010313 are all new ... data before that are unchanged
note: all data updated 6.07.2012 using the new MODIS.R2012 reprocessing results
note: all data updated 8.05.2011 using the new MODIS.R2010.0 (partial) reprocessing results
data files starting with 2008305 are all new ... data before that are unchanged
note: all data updated 5.27.2010 using the new MODIS.R2009.1 reprocessing results

To get these data, please click on the file name(s) that you have selected and save locally on your computer.
The individual hdf files are gzipped (use gunzip to uncompress) and the tar files contain gzipped hdf files.

different grid size or timestep?

Data Selection

You can either download annual tar files with the data we have for each year, or you can access the individual 8day files at the end of this page.

Annual Tar Files

par.m.2002.tar• 2002 data: ~   94 MB of compressed data
par.m.2003.tar• 2003 data: ~ 183 MB of compressed data
par.m.2004.tar• 2004 data: ~ 183 MB of compressed data
par.m.2005.tar• 2005 data: ~ 184 MB of compressed data
par.m.2006.tar• 2006 data: ~ 184 MB of compressed data
par.m.2007.tar• 2007 data: ~ 184 MB of compressed data
par.m.2008.tar• 2008 data: ~ 183 MB of compressed data
par.m.2009.tar• 2009 data: ~ 183 MB of compressed data
par.m.2010.tar• 2010 data: ~ 184 MB of compressed data
par.m.2011.tar• 2011 data: ~ 185 MB of compressed data
par.m.2012.tar• 2012 data: ~ 184 MB of compressed data
par.m.2013.tar• 2013 data: ~ 184 MB of compressed data
par.m.2014.tar• 2014 data: ~ 183 MB of compressed data
par.m.2015.tar• 2015 data: ~ 185 MB of compressed data
par.m.2016.tar• 2016 data: ~ 186 MB of compressed data
par.m.2017.tar• 2017 data: ~ 186 MB of compressed data
par.m.2018.tar• 2018 data: ~ 186 MB of compressed data
par.m.2019.tar• 2019 data: ~ 187 MB of compressed data
par.m.2020.tar• 2020 data: ~ 188 MB of compressed data
par.m.2021.tar• 2021 data: ~ 187 MB of compressed data
par.m.2022.tar• 2022 data: ~ 180 MB of compressed data
par.m.2023.tar• 2023 data: ~ 188 MB of compressed data
par.m.2024.tar• 2024 data: ~   16 MB of compressed data

hdf file naming convention

par.yyyyddd.hdf.gz

par = photosynthetically available radiation (units of Einstein / m**2 / day )
yyyy = year
ddd= day of year of the start of each 8day file
hdf = file type
gz = compressed with gzip (uncompress with gunzip)

The hdf files have metadata contained within them, which can be examined, for example, with program "ncdump".

For citation, please reference the Ocean Productivity site for the data.

8day Files

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Last modified: 22 August 2024
by:  Toby Westberry

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