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The l2gen code will not output emissive bands  as remote sensing reflectance, because, well, they are emissive bands not reflective bands.
Try BT_11000 to retrieve the brightness temperature.

Sean

1 & 2) No.Both MODIS and VIIRS (in fact all the L2 files we distribute) are generated using the same code (l2gen).  There is a common file format, and thus a common l2_flag array.Obviously, for all but VIIRS the BOWTIEDEL flag is not set.3)The new "flags" in the SeaDAS GUI are gen...

The standard MODIS L2 files we produce are (nominally) 1km resolution.  While they do have the 645nm Rrs data, to get the 250m resolution you would have to process the L1 files to L2 locally and set resolution=250We do not provide a quai-true color image in any of our products.  You can ge...

Yeah, I suppose that can be confusing...especially when I mistype 667 as 671 (got VIIRS on the brain) ;)MODIS *has* 555, but for the ocean color world it's green band is 547 (also listed elsewhere as 551 - the spec doesn't match reality).The 555nm band is a "land" band, with a lowe...

A lot depends on the definition of high resolution.   If you can accept 250m-ish, and don't mind processing the data locally...MODIS Rrs_645nm might serve as a decent proxy for turbidity...300m-ish, MERIS with 709nm available...if you can live with 1km-ish,  again MODIS and MERIS,...

Did you look here:  https://oceancolor.gsfc.nasa.gov/atbd/chlor_a/

Section 2 ...

...but in case of TL;DR...:wink: they're  443, 547, and 671

Sean

There is nothing wrong with the products we produced, as the binner has no issues with them.  The files you are passing to the binner have a problem. 
You need to either  figure out why they are suspect or remove the suspect files from your binning process.

Sean

Yep.

For SST, the HISOLZEN flag bit of the l2_flags is set for solz > 90.  So, if you are looking at SST products, you simply need to check the l2_flags to determine if the pixel is day or night.  For ocean color products the HISOLZEN flag bit is set for solz > 70, so for those you would need t...

Well, that's the problem then.  The L2 files are either corrupt or have too few pixels.  Both cases will be a problem for the binner.