PARASOL Time Series

Satellite band averaged data: water-leaving radiance, surface irradiance and solar normalized water-leaving radiance. These values are given as the mean flux (not the total flux) for each band. The total and in-band averages are calculated for each satellite. The in-band is calculated by limiting the relative spectral response to within 1% of the maximum value. A separate data listing (denoted by it's hour) is presented when MOBY collects more than one file per day. Six water-leaving radiances can be calculated from different combinations of MOBY four radiance collectors. The best water-leaving radiance is Lw1, determined from the upper two arms. Lw7 is also included and is calculated from the middle and bottom arms.

MOBY246 was deployed on 16 Jun 2010, on the 17th the top arm sustain a boat strike damaging the EdTop sensor, bending the arm down by 20 degrees and rotating the LuTop sensor. So all LuTop data from 17th to the end of the deployment can not be used. Also on July 10th the LuBot arm started to decrease, cleaning did not fix the problem and post cals showed the change was over 30%. So after July 10th all the LuBot data is unusable. LuMid looked good for most of the deployment the only exception is for 13 Aug - 30 Sep when barnacles were growing in the collector.

To provide Lw for the calibration process we use the 14-year monthly mean Kl to propagate the middle arm Lu data to the surface. This Lw is called Lw11. The 14-year monthly mean Kl3 was calculated for each MOBY hour (20, 22 and 23).



October 2016 Reprocessing Information

In Oct 2016, a reprocessing of the MOBY data began. Three problems are being addressed: 1) the method to extrapolate Kl to the surface has been improved to include Raman scattering and chlorophyll fluorescence; 2) the arm depths used in retrievals was increased by 0.234 m; and 3) a single pixel shift in the data for the RSG collected at a bin factor of 384 for deployments MOBY203 to MOBY253. Initially only MOBY254 to current deployments were reprocessed. These deployments did not have the RSG single pixel shift problem. So for MOBY254 to current deployments only correction 1 and 2 are applied. As the older deployments are processed the data will be added to this directory. MOBY203 to MOBY253 will have had all three corrections applied.

November 2017 Reprocessing Information

In Nov 2017 a reprocessing of the MOBY data from M203-M248 was done. This was done to 1) provide a uniform stray light correction (SLC) to the entire data set. M249 onward already was processed with this SLC, so was not changed; 2) Deployments M206, M208 and M210 had spectral data for wavelengths less than 380 nm removed because these deployments used a different type of fiber which caused problems for the SLC at wavelengths below 380 nm.



● Lw1 is the Water-Leaving Radiance calculated from LuTop and Kl1(LuTop-LuMid)
● Lw2 is the Water-Leaving Radiance calculated from LuTop and Kl2(LuTop-LuBot)
● Lw7 is the Water-Leaving Radiance calculated from LuMid and Kl3(LuMid-LuBot)
Lw11 is the Water-Leaving Radiance calculated from LuMid and Kl3 (14-year monthly mean)

● Lw21 is the Water-Leaving Radiance calculated from LuTop and a modeled Kl
● Lw22 is the Water-Leaving Radiance calculated from LuTop and a modeled Kl
● Lw27 is the Water-Leaving Radiance calculated from LuMid and a modeled Kl

PARASOL bands plotted with Lw and Es
Satellite BandHourLw&EsLwn2
PARASOL Total-Band 20 1 1
22 1 1
PARASOL Total-Band 20 2 2
22 2 2
PARASOL Total-Band 20 7 7
22 7 7
23 7 7
PARASOL Total-Band 20 11 11
22 11 11
23 11 11
PARASOL Total-Band modeled Kl 20 21 -
22 21 -
PARASOL Total-Band modeled Kl 20 22 -
22 22 -
PARASOL Total-Band modeled Kl 20 27 -
22 27 -
23 27 -
PARASOL Total-Band modeled Kl 20 211 -
22 211 -
23 211 -

MOBY Auxilliary Data
MOBY HourLwAux Data
20 11 Listing
20 1 Listing
20 2 Listing
20 7 Listing
22 11 Listing
22 1 Listing
22 2 Listing
22 7 Listing
23 11 Listing
23 7 Listing

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nd_parasol_total_20_1_lw.png
nd_parasol_total_20_2_es.png
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nd_parasol_total_20_7_es.png
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nd_parasol_total_22_1_es.png
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nd_parasol_total_22_2_es.png
nd_parasol_total_22_2_lw.png
nd_parasol_total_22_7_es.png
nd_parasol_total_22_7_lw.png
nd_parasol_total_23_7_es.png
nd_parasol_total_23_7_lw.png
nmkl2_parasol_total_20_11_es.png
nmkl2_parasol_total_20_11_lw.png
nmkl2_parasol_total_22_11_es.png
nmkl2_parasol_total_22_11_lw.png
nmkl2_parasol_total_23_11_es.png
nmkl2_parasol_total_23_11_lw.png

Lwn2 Time Series

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nlwn2_parasol_total_20_7_lwn2.png
nlwn2_parasol_total_22_11_lwn2.png
nlwn2_parasol_total_22_1_lwn2.png
nlwn2_parasol_total_22_2_lwn2.png
nlwn2_parasol_total_22_7_lwn2.png
nlwn2_parasol_total_23_11_lwn2.png
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Stephanie Flora - Moss Landing Marine Laboratories