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Please note:

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

(09.12.2024)


Online Data: Standard VGPM

1080 by 2160 8day HDF files from SeaWiFS r2022 Data

note: all data updated 06.23.2023 using the new SeaWiFS.r2022 reprocessing results

note: all data updated 04.07.2016 using the new SeaWiFS.r2014 reprocessing results
note: all data updated 12.23.2010 using the new SeaWiFS.r2010 reprocessing results
note: all data updated 4.02.2010 using the new SeaWiFS.r2009.1 reprocessing results

note: all data updated 3.10.2009 reflect usage of q5 to q8 avhrr sst input data; please replace previous downloads with these values

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?

[Note: ancillary input data are available here for those who are interested]

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

vgpm.s.1997.tar• 1997 data: ~   54 MB of compressed data
vgpm.s.1998.tar• 1998 data: ~ 177 MB of compressed data
vgpm.s.1999.tar• 1999 data: ~ 177 MB of compressed data
vgpm.s.2000.tar• 2000 data: ~ 177 MB of compressed data
vgpm.s.2001.tar• 2001 data: ~ 177 MB of compressed data
vgpm.s.2002.tar• 2002 data: ~ 177 MB of compressed data
vgpm.s.2003.tar• 2003 data: ~ 176 MB of compressed data
vgpm.s.2004.tar• 2004 data: ~ 177 MB of compressed data
vgpm.s.2005.tar• 2005 data: ~ 177 MB of compressed data
vgpm.s.2006.tar• 2006 data: ~ 177 MB of compressed data
vgpm.s.2007.tar• 2007 data: ~ 177 MB of compressed data
vgpm.s.2008.tar• 2008 data: ~ 102 MB of compressed data
vgpm.s.2009.tar• 2009 data: ~ 106 MB of compressed data

hdf file naming convention

vgpm.yyyyddd.hdf.gz

vgpm = net primary production (units of mg C / m**2 / day) based on the standard vgpm algorithm
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".

npp is based on the standard vgpm, using seawifs chl, avhrr sst, and seawifs par as input; clouds have been filled in the input data using our own gap-filling software.

For citation, please reference the original vgpm paper by Behrenfeld and Falkowski, 1997a as well as the Ocean Productivity site for the data.

8day Files

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by:  Toby Westberry

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