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GlobColour merged products - MERIS, MODIS, SeaWiFS
Google Earth visualisation demonstration


The GlobColour 4.6 km resolution maps have been resampled to a 22 km grid for this demonstration

GlobColour GE samples

Demonstration checked with Google Earth 4.0 under Windows XP and Mac OS-X Tiger

Acknowledgements to ACRI, LOV and ESA
Contact: service@globcolour.info

Available maps
Monthly merged products, including:
  • Chlorophyll-a, case-1 water (CHL1)
  • Fully normalised water leaving radiance at 412 nm (L412)
  • Diffuse attenuation coefficient (KD490)
  • Cloud fraction (CF)
Jul_02 Oct_02 Jan_03 Apr_03
Monthly average of CHL1 (MERIS-only)
  • Animation of 12 months of CHL1 data
2005
Last update of the server: 12/apr/2007

General information concerning the Google Earth visualisation
  • Google Earth client (4.0.x) must be installed on your system before using this service.
  • When you click on any link above, you may be asked to open the file using Google.Earth.kmzfile. Just answer Yes or OK.
  • For multi-months animation (all), just click on the link to open Google Earth. Then, you will need to click on the "Go" button close to the time slider at the top of the window. Note that maps will need some times to load.
  • Setting timeline options: click on the clock icon close to the time slider. The time dialog box appears. You can change the animation speed, select "UTC" displayed time, and set the repeat mode to "Wrap".
  • When you load several monthly maps and see no map on the screen, check that the date selected by the time slider is falling inside one of your selected months.
  • You can continue to navigate while the animation is running.
  • Useful information concerning the use of Google Earth (version 4) can be found here.
The European Service for Ocean Colour - GlobCOLOUR is an ESA Data User Element Project