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dust_depo_chlorophyll·dataset

North Atlantic Ocean Chlorophyll During Dust Events, 2024-2025

PACE - North Atlantic Chlorophyll-a for 2024-2025
ocean NASA VEDA COG
In plain English

What it measures. Maps of chlorophyll-a, a green pigment that signals tiny ocean plants (phytoplankton), in the North Atlantic during three dust-storm events between 2024 and 2025.

How it's made. Measured by the Ocean Color Instrument aboard NASA's PACE satellite, which gauges ocean color from space.

How & where you'd use it. Helps scientists study how airborne dust fertilizes ocean life and feeds phytoplankton blooms.

What's measured

dustdepochlorophyll

Coverage & cadence

  • Time span2024-05-23 → 2025-05-07
  • Spatial extent-71.397, 2.417, -14.82, 24.786
  • FormatsCOG

What you can do with it

  • Watch sea-surface temperature and marine heatwaves
  • Spot algal blooms and ocean-colour shifts
  • Support fisheries and coastal monitoring
Official description

PACE/OCI Chlorophyll-a for the North Atlantic Region for three select dust events between 2024 and 2025

Get the data

veda_access.py
# NASA VEDA — open STAC API, anonymous (cloud-optimized GeoTIFFs)
from pystac_client import Client

cat = Client.open("https://openveda.cloud/api/stac")
col = cat.get_collection("dust_depo_chlorophyll")
items = list(col.get_items())          # browse the analysis-ready COGs
# open an asset with rioxarray:
# import rioxarray; da = rioxarray.open_rasterio(items[0].assets["cog_default"].href)
NASA VEDA is an open STAC catalog — browse and stream the cloud-optimized GeoTIFFs anonymously (no login).