The Carbon, Absorption, and Fluorescence Euphotic-resolving (CAFE) net primary production model is an adaptable framework for advancing global ocean productivity assessments by exploiting state-of-the-art satellite ocean color analyses and addressing key physiological and ecological attributes of phytoplankton.
Calculated sum of 2014 to 2023 monthly net primary production (NPP) from VIIRS data.
Community guidance for developing this website was to provide a single productivity product as a Standard product. For this, we initially chose the original Vertically Generalized Production Model (VGPM) (Behrenfeld and Falkowski, 1997a) as the standard algorithm. The VGPM is a “chlorophyll-based” model that estimate net primary production from chlorophyll using a temperature-dependent description of chlorophyll-specific photosynthetic efficiency. For the VGPM, net primary production is a function of chlorophyll, available light, and the photosynthetic efficiency.
Standard products are based on chlorophyll, temperature and PAR data from SeaWiFS, MODIS and VIIRS satellites, along with estimates of euphotic zone depth from a model developed by Morel and Berthon (1989) and based on chlorophyll concentration.