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Author contributions. The first six authors belong to the ESA 
OC-CCI team and contributed to the design of the compilation. The 
remaining authors are listed alphabetically and are data contributors 
(see their respective dataset on Table 2) or individuals responsible 
for the development of a particular dataset (Jeremy Werdell for NO 
MAD and Katherine Barker for MERMAID). All data contributors 
(listed on Table 2) were contacted for authorisation of data pub 
lishing and offered co-authorship. In the case of the ICES dataset 
the permission for publishing was given by the ICES team. All the 
authors have critically reviewed the manuscript. 
Acknowledgements. This paper is a contribution to the ESA 
OC-CCI project. This work is also a contribution to project 
PEst-OE/MAR/UI0199/2014. We are grateful for the efforts of 
the teams responsible for the collection of the data in the field 
and of the teams responsible for processing and storing the data 
in archives, without which this work would not be possible. 
We thank Tamoghna Acharyya and Robert Brewin at Plymouth 
Marine Laboratory for their initial contribution to this work. We 
thank the NOAA (US) for making available the MOBY data 
and Yong Sung Kim for the help with questions about MOBY 
data. BOUSSOLE is supported and funded by the European 
Space Agency (ESA), the Centre National d’Etudes Spatiales 
(CNES ), the Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS ), 
the Institut National des Sciences de T Univers (INSU), the 
Université Pierre et Marie Curie (UPMC) and the Observatoire 
Océanologique de Villefranche-sur-mer (OOV). We thank ACRI- 
ST, ARGANS and ESA for access to the MERMAID Database 
(http://hermes.acri.fr/mermaid). We thank Annelies Hommersom, 
Pierre Yves Deschamps and David Siegel for allowing the use of 
MERMAID data for which they are principal investigators. We 
thank the British Oceanographic Data Centre (BODC) for access 
to AMT data and in particular Polly Hadziabdic and Rob Thomas 
for their help with questions about the AMT dataset. We thank 
Victoria Hill, Patrick Holligan, Gerald Moore and Emilio Suarez 
for the use of AMT data for which they are principal investigators. 
We thank Sam Ahmed, Hui Feng, Alex Gilerson and Brent Holben 
for allowing the use of the AERONET-OC data for which they are 
principal investigators. We thank also the AERONET staff and 
site support people. We thank Bob Bidigare, Matthew Church, 
Ricardo Letelier and Jasmine Nahomiak for making the HOT data 
available, and the National Science Foundation for support of the 
HOT research (grant OCE 09-26766). We thank Yves Dandonneau 
for allowing the use of GeP&CO data. We thank the ICES database 
on the marine environment (Copenhagen, Denmark, 2014) for 
allowing the use of their archived data, and Marilynn Sprensen 
for the help with questions about the ICES dataset. We thank all 
ICES contributors for their data. We thank Eric Zettler and the 
SEA Education Association. We thank NASA, SeaBASS and the 
Ocean Biology Processing Group (OBPG) for access to SeaBASS 
and NOMAD data. We thank NASA for project funding for data 
collection. We thank Chris Proctor from SeaBASS for his valuable 
and prompt help with a variety of questions. Finally, we are deeply 
thankful to the data contributors of NOMAD and SeaBASS: 
Kevin Arrigo, Mike Behrenfeld, Emmanuel Boss, Chris Brown, 
Douglas Capone, Ken Carder, Alex Chekalyuk, Jay-Chung Chen, 
Dennis Clark, Jorge Corredor, Glenn Cota, Yves Dandonneau, 
Heidi Dierssen, David Eslinger, Piotr Flatau, Joaquim Goes, 
Gwo-Ching Gong, Larry Harding, Jon Hare, Chuanmin Hu, 
Sung-Ho Kang, Gary Kirkpatrick, Oleg Kopelevich, Sam Laney, 
Zhongping Lee, Ricardo Letelier, Marlon Lewis, Antonio Mannino, 
John Marra, Chuck McClain, Christophe Menkes, Mark Miller, 
Ru Morrison, James Mueller, James Nelson, Norman Nelson, 
Mary Jane Perry, David Phinney, John Porter, Collin Roesler, 
David Siegel, Mike Sieracki, Jeffrey Smart, Raymond Smith, 
James Spinhirne, Dariusz Stramski, Rick Stumpf, Ajit Sub- 
ramaniam, Chuck Trees, Ronald Zaneveld, Eric Zettler and 
Richard Zimmerman. 
Edited by: D. Carlson 
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