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Hi, We do noticed the issue and is looking for the reason. While waiting for the color bar to show up, you can also download the l3map files and open it in SeaDAS (https://seadas.gsfc.nasa.gov/) to manipulate the images - zoom in to your interested region, see the variation over time, and do further...

Hi Marco, You can use L1/l2 browser (https://oceancolor.gsfc.nasa.gov/cgi/browse.pl) to order and download the data for your study area at a particular period of time. Here is the help page on how to use the l1/l2 browser: https://oceancolor.gsfc.nasa.gov/browse_help/top_level/ Let us know if you st...

I think the problem could be from the bulk downloading you are trying to do. When using wget to download more than one file, you can put all the urls (e.g. https://oceandata.sci.gsfc.nasa.gov/ob/getfile/T2017004001500.L1A_LAC.bz2) into a txt file (such as required_files.txt), then use the following ...

You may need to configure your username and password for authentication using a .netrc file following the instructions on the following page:
https://oceancolor.gsfc.nasa.gov/data/download_methods/#netrc

Hi,

Do you mind providing more information about the MODIS L2 data that you are using? Where did you download the file? What is the original MODIS L2 filename?

Thank you,
Guoqing

Are you referring to the meteorological climatology data (met_climatology_v2014.hdf from https://oceancolor.gsfc.nasa.gov/docs/ancillary/)? For this file, yes, there are 12 months' data. For all the months from Feb - Dec., the different parameters' name should include "_Month", such as &qu...

The spatial resolution for L2 JPSS-1/NOAA 20 is 750 m. On this webpage (https://www.nesdis.noaa.gov/current-satellite-missions/currently-flying/joint-polar-satellite-system/jpss-mission-and), it says JPSS covers the entire globe twice a day. You can always find the spatial resolution and much more i...

You can try the methods suggested on these two posts:
viewtopic.php?t=2664
https://oceancolor.gsfc.nasa.gov/forum/oceancolor/topic_show.pl?tid=3081

Hi, The error happens because Sentinel 2A MSI lacks a band around 412nm, which means QAA (https://www.ioccg.org/groups/software.html) is not applicable to MSI. It requires 5 bands in total (412,443,490,555, and 670 nm) but MSI only has 4 of them. My suggestion is changing the iop_opt=3 to iop_opt=7 ...

Adding on to Bing's answer, you can following the tutorial on this page for Pixel Extraction using SeaDAS:
https://seadas.gsfc.nasa.gov/help-8.2.0/pixelExtraction/PixelExtraction.html

Guoqing