All science data files produced from PACE will follow the standard naming convention of NASA's Ocean Biology Processing Group (OBPG). The filename leader will be PACE_OCI, PACE_HARP, or PACE_SPEX for OCI, HARP2, and SPEXone, respectively.
OBPG naming convention:
MMMM_IIII_TTT.YYYYMMDDTHHMMSS.LLLL.PPPP.SSSS.pppp.RRRR.NRT.nc
- MMMM*: variable-length uppercase character string indicating the "mission".
- e.g. AQUA, PACE, S3A
- IIII: variable-length uppercase character string indicating the instrument
- e.g. OCI (PACE Ocean Color Instrument)
- TTT: (value is absent if not relevant to product) variable-length uppercase character string indicating the data "type"
- e.g. GAC (SeaWiFS Global Area Coverage); EFR (OLCI Full Resolution)
- YYYYMMDDTHHMMSS: ISO8601 time format, where YYYY is the 4-digit year, MM is the two-digit month, DD is the two-digit day, T indicates the time follows this character, HHMMSS are the two-digit hour, minutes, and seconds, respectively.
- LLLL: variable-length character string indicating the level.
- e.g. L1B, L2, L3m
- PPPP: period indicator for L3
- e.g. DAY, MO, YR, R32
- SSSS: suite identifier
- e.g. RRS, CHL
- pppp: product identifier
- e.g. Rrs_412, chlor_a
- RRRR**: resolution
- e.g. 4km
- NRT: (value is absent if not relevant to product) Near Real-Time identifier
* The mission identifier could be a reasonably shortened representation, e.g. Sentinel-3A = S3A
** The resolution element includes the units, e.g. 4km, 1deg