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A compilation of global bio-optical in situ data for ocean 
colour satellite applications — version three 
Andre Valente!”°, Shubha Sathyendranath”, Vanda Brotas!”, Steve Groom”, Michael Grant”, 
Thomas Jackson”, Andrei Chuprin”, Malcolm Taberner*, Ruth Airs”, David Antoine*>, Robert Arnone®, 
William M. Balch’, Kathryn Barker**-10°, Ray Barlow!!, Simon Belanger!*, Jean-Francois Berthon‘©, 
Sükrü Besiktepe!*, Yngve Borsheim'®, Astrid Bracher!°!’, Vittorio Brando*!®, Robert J. W. Brewin*“*®, 
Elisabetta Canuti'®, Francisco P. Chavez!*, Andres Cianca”®, Herve Claustre*, Lesley Clementson”®, 
Richard Crout?!, Afonso Ferreira!, Scott Freeman“°*/, Robert Frouin“?, Carlos Garcia-Soto??24, 
Stuart W. Gibb”, Ralf Goericke”, Richard Gould“, Nathalie Guillocheau“®, Stanford B. Hooker“®, 
Chuamin Hu*°, Mati Kahru“”, Milton Kampel*’, Holger Klein*®, Susanne Kratzer”, Raphael Kudela*® 
Jesus Ledesma*!, Steven Lohrenz°®, Hubert Loisel””, Antonio Mannino*®°, Victor Martinez-Vicente”, 
Patricia Matrai’, David McKee*?, Brian G. Mitchell??, Tiffany Moisan?* T, Enrique Montes>!-, 
Frank Muller-Karger*”, Aimee Neeley*°, Michael Novak”°, Leonie O’Dowd*®°, Michael Ondrusek*”. 
Trevor Platt? T, Alex J. Poulton?®, Michel Repecaud®®, Rüdiger Röttgers°, Thomas Schroeder”, 
Timothy Smyth?, Denise Smythe-Wright*°, Heidi M. Sosik*!, Crystal Thomas*°, Rob Thomas“, 
Gavin Tilstone?, Andreia Tracana'!, Michael Twardowski*?, Vincenzo Vellucci”?, Kenneth Voss, 
Jeremy Werdell®°, Marcel Wernand**-T, Bozena Wojtasiewicz”, Simon Wright”, and 
Giuseppe Zibordi'® 
'MARE - Marine and Environmental Sciences Centre, Faculdade de Ci&ncias, Universidade de Lisboa, 
Campo Grande, 1749-016 Lisboa, Portugal 
? Plymouth Marine Laboratory, Plymouth PL1 3DH, UK 
>EUMETSAT, Eumetsat-Allee 1, 64295 Darmstadt, Germany 
*Sorbonne Universit&, CNRS, Laboratoire d’Oceanographie de Villefranche, LOV, 
06230 Villefranche-sur-Mer, France 
>Remote Sensing and Satellite Research Group, School of Earth and Planetary Sciences, 
Curtin University, Perth, WA 6845, Australia 
SUniversity of Southern Mississippi, Stennis Space Center, MS, USA 
”Bigelow Laboratory for Ocean Sciences, 60 Bigelow Dr., East Boothbay MF. 04544, Maine, USA 
SARGANS Ltd, UK 
9CSIRO Oceans and Atmosphere, Australia 
10 Australian Research Data Commons, Caulfield East, Australia 
!!Bayworld Centre for Research and Education, Cape Town, South Africa 
12 Universit& du Quebec A Rimouski, Rimouski (Quebec), Canada 
!3European Commission, Joint Research Centre, Ispra, Italy 
!4Dokuz Eylul University, Institute of Marine Science and Technology, Izmir, Turkey 
l57nstitute of Marine Research, Bergen, Norway 
16 Alfred-Wegener-Institute Helmholtz Centre for Polar and Marine Research, Bremerhaven, Germany 
VTnstitute of Environmental Physics, University Bremen, Bremen, Germany 
ISCNR — ISMAR, Rome, Italy 
1”Monterey Bay Aquarium Research Institute, Moss Landing, CA, USA 
“PLOCAN-Oceanic Platform of the Canary Islands. Carretera de Taliarte, 35214 Telde, Gran Canaria, Spain 
21Naval Research Laboratory, Stennis Space Center, MS, USA 
2 Scripps Institution of Oceanography, University of California San Diego, CA, USA 
23 Spanish Institute of Oceanography (IEO), Corazön de Maria 8, 28002 Madrid, Spain 
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