Global distribution of photosynthetically available radiation on the seafloor

Gattuso, Jean-Pierre; Gentili, Bernard; Antoine, David; Doxaran, David

doi:https://doi.org/10.5194/essd-12-1697-2020

Articles | Volume 12, issue 3

https://doi.org/10.5194/essd-12-1697-2020

© Author(s) 2020. This work is distributed under
the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 License.

https://doi.org/10.5194/essd-12-1697-2020

© Author(s) 2020. This work is distributed under
the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 License.

Articles | Volume 12, issue 3

Data description paper

|

31 Jul 2020

Data description paper |

| 31 Jul 2020

Global distribution of photosynthetically available radiation on the seafloor

Jean-Pierre Gattuso, Bernard Gentili, David Antoine, and David Doxaran

Download

Final revised paper (published on 31 Jul 2020)
Preprint (discussion started on 24 Feb 2020)

Interactive discussion

Status: closed

AC: Author comment | RC: Referee comment | SC: Short comment | EC: Editor comment

- Printer-friendly version

- Supplement

RC1: 'reviewer comments', Anonymous Referee #1, 31 Mar 2020
RC2: 'Comments on "Global distribution of photosynthetically available radiation on the seafloor"', Anonymous Referee #2, 27 May 2020
AC1: 'Reply to the referees' comments', Jean-Pierre Gattuso, 23 Jun 2020

Peer-review completion

AR: Author's response | RR: Referee report | ED: Editor decision

AR by Jean-Pierre Gattuso on behalf of the Authors (23 Jun 2020) Manuscript

ED: Publish subject to technical corrections (29 Jun 2020) by Giuseppe M.R. Manzella

AR by David Doxaran on behalf of the Authors (02 Jul 2020) Manuscript

Download

The requested paper has a corresponding corrigendum published. Please read the corrigendum first before downloading the article.

Article (1917 KB)
Full-text XML

Short summary

Light is a key ocean variable shaping the composition of benthic and pelagic communities by controlling the three-dimensional distribution of primary producers. It also plays a major role in the global carbon cycle. We provide a continuous monthly data set of the global distribution of light reaching the seabed. It is 4 times longer (21 vs 5 years) than the previous data set, the spatial resolution is better (4.6 vs 9.3 km), and the bathymetric resolution is also better (0.46 vs 3.7 km).