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Sean

The MODIS L1B LUTs maintained by the OBPG differ from the LUTs generated by MCST (as your user noted). Ocean color processing requires an on-orbit calibration accuracy that is not provided by the MCST LUTs. The OBPG versions use the MCST version as a source, but we adjust the coefficients for the oc...

This issue was related a truncation of the utcpole.dat file. That file was corrected, so if you haven't already run update_luts, that should resolve this for you

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Sean

What constitutes a "day" for the L3 binned products is not a 24hr period starting at midnight. We define the "data day" based on the equatorial node crossing time for our sun-synchronous polar orbiting satellites. For MODIS (at least before the orbit maintenance was stopped), tha...

If you are referring to MODIS, yes, we are aware of the issue with the binning of recent data. It has to do with the selection of data that fall with in the "data day". The logic in place isn't handling the orbit drift properly. The code has been updated and once it is put into production ...

The coccolithophore flag is based on work from Chris Brown, and was originally described in Chapter 3 of Volume 28 of the SeaWiFS pre-launch technical memoranda series: The coefficients were updated in 2000 and was documented in Chapter 7 of Volume 9 of the SeaWiFS post-launch series They haven't ch...

Andrew,
You have a typo in the wget call. It is not manafest, but manifest.
Try: wget https://oceandata.sci.gsfc.nasa.gov/manifest/install_ocssw

Sean

Thanks for the report. We'll get a fix for this in an upcoming release.

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Sean

The next planned reprocessing for MODIS Aqua ocean color data will not take place until the mission has reached its end. NASA budgets and priorities are still not finalized, so I cannot provide a reliable estimate as to when that reprocessing will be accomplished. That said, I can say that changes i...

The optically shallow flag (OPSHAL) is actively being populated in the current version of the code. Here is what is output in the current L2 files: int l2_flags(number_of_lines, pixels_per_line) ; l2_flags:long_name = "Level-2 Processing Flags" ; l2_flags:coordinates = "longitude lati...