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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: Growth Rate (from CbPM)

1080 by 2160 Monthly HDF files from GSM v5 Data (using MODIS)

note: all data updated 9.28.2010 using the new MODIS.r2009.1 and GSM v5 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?
2160 by 4320 files 8day files

Data Selection

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

Annual Tar Files

hdf file naming convention

growth.yyyyddd.hdf.gz

growth = growth rate (units of divisions / day )
yyyy = year
ddd = day of year of the start of each monthly 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".

clouds have been filled in the input data using our own gap-filling software.

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