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clms_npp_global_300m_10daily_v1·dataset

How much carbon plants store, 2023-2026 (Copernicus)

CLMS NPP Global 300m 10-daily V1
biosphere ESA ESA Copernicus COGNetCDF
In plain English

What it measures. Estimates net primary production, the amount of carbon plants actually lock into new growth after subtracting what they burn through respiration. This version covers 2023 to February 2026.

How it's made. Produced by ESA Copernicus from the Sentinel-3 OLCI sensor at about 300-meter resolution, updated every ten days.

How & where you'd use it. Helps quantify how much carbon ecosystems absorb, supporting climate accounting, carbon-cycle research, and assessments of vegetation productivity.

What's measured

CopernicusCLMSNPPNet Primary Productioncarbon fluxglobal10-daily300mSentinel-3OLCI

Coverage & cadence

  • Time span2023-06-21 → 2026-02-28
  • Spatial extent-179.9999999, -59.9985119, 179.9985119, 80.0014881
  • FormatsCOG, NetCDF

What you can do with it

  • Map vegetation, forests and biomass
  • Monitor ecosystem productivity and carbon
  • Support habitat and biodiversity studies
Official description

Provides the amount of carbon retained in an ecosystem (increase in biomass); it is equal to the difference between the amount of carbon produced through photosynthesis (GPP) and the amount of energy that is used for respiration. 10-daily observations are available at global scale in the spatial resolution of 300 m and with the temporal extent from 2023 to February 2026.

Get the data

copernicus_access.py
# ESA Copernicus Data Space — open STAC API (free account)
from pystac_client import Client

cat = Client.open("https://stac.dataspace.copernicus.eu/v1")
search = cat.search(
    collections=["clms_npp_global_300m_10daily_v1"],   # add _cog or _nc for a format variant
    bbox=(-10, 35, 30, 60),             # your area (W,S,E,N)
    datetime="2024-01-01/2024-12-31",
)
items = list(search.items())            # then read assets with rioxarray / xarray
Browsing the Copernicus STAC is open; downloading bytes needs a free Copernicus Data Space account.