Issues Accessing the Ocean Color ATBD Documentation

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Issues Accessing the Ocean Color ATBD Documentation

by mercury_1106 » Wed Aug 12, 2026 11:07 pm America/New_York

Since EarthData has now consolidated most of the previous data websites, I’d like to ask whether some of the older documents are still accessible. I’m unable to find a significant portion of the ATBD documentation that was previously available on the Ocean Color website on the consolidated EarthData pages. For example, the page that used to be at https://oceancolor.gsfc.nasa.gov/atbd/ocl2flags/.
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Re: Issues Accessing the Ocean Color ATBD Documentation

by OB.DAAC-EDL - amscott » Thu Aug 13, 2026 11:11 am America/New_York

One place to find ATBDs is on the OB.DAAC Center page under OBPG Product Suite descriptions: https://www.earthdata.nasa.gov/centers/ob-daac/data-access-tools

Another place for ATBDs is on each dataset landing page on the Earthdata website: https://www.earthdata.nasa.gov/data/catalog/ob-cloud-pace-oci-l2-bgc-3.2#documents-and-resources

You can find dataset landing pages from the Earthdata Data Catalog: https://www.earthdata.nasa.gov/data/catalog

Let me see if I can find an answer on those L2 flags...

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Re: Issues Accessing the Ocean Color ATBD Documentation

by OB.DAAC-EDL - amscott » Thu Aug 13, 2026 1:48 pm America/New_York


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Re: Issues Accessing the Ocean Color ATBD Documentation

by davidantoine » Sun Aug 16, 2026 5:28 am America/New_York

Same issue from here: cannot find any more the MODIS ATBDs, for instance. The 3 links you provide in your answer do not do that actually. A bit lost now! Would be awesome if you could make this easier to find. Thanks!

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Re: Issues Accessing the Ocean Color ATBD Documentation

by davidantoine » Sun Aug 16, 2026 5:36 am America/New_York

Same issue from here: cannot find any more the MODIS ATBDs, for instance. The 3 links you provide in your answer do not do that actually. A bit lost now! Would be awesome if you could make this easier to find. Thanks!

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