The table below summarises the geophysical units used in the OLCI Level-2 products.
| MARINE AND INLAND WATERS | water-leaving reflectance | Rxxx | dimensionless |
| Total backscattering coefficient | BBP560_M07
BBP443_NN | m-1 |
| Total absorption coefficient | ATOT443_NN | m-1 |
| Phytoplankton absorption coefficient | APH443_NN | m-1 |
| CDM absorption coefficient | ADG443_NN | m-1 |
| Humic material absorption coefficient | AD443_NN | m-1 |
| Algal pigment concentration | CHL_OC4ME
CHL_NN | mg(Chl a).m-3 |
| Total suspended matter concentration | TSM_NN | g.m-3 |
| Diffuse attenuation coefficient | KD490_M07
KD490_L05 | m-1 |
| Heated layer depth | ZHL | m |
| Water transparency | ZSD | m |
| Photosynthetically active radiation | PAR | µEinstein.m-2.s-1 |
| Aerosol optical thickness | T865 | Dimensionless |
| Aerosol Angström exponent | A865 | Dimensionless |
| Integrated water vapour column | IWV | kg.m-2 |
| Ocean products quality and science flags | WQSF | Dimensionless |
| LAND | OLCI Global Vegetal Index (faPAR) | OGVI | Dimensionless |
| Rectified Reflectance | RC681, RC865 | Dimensionless |
| OLCI Terrestrial Chlorophyll Index | OTCI | Dimensionless |
| Integrated water vapour column | IWV | kg.m-2 |
| Land products quality and science flags | LQSF | Dimensionless |
Table 1: Units of OLCI Level-2 products
Other general quantities have the units shown in the table below.
| Irradiance | 10-3 W.m-2.μm-1 | IU | spectral irradiance unit |
| Radiance | 10-3 W.m-2.sr-1.μm-1 | LU | spectral radiance unit |
| Time | jd or MJD | jd or MJD | modified Julian date 2000 |
| 10-6s | (1.e-6)s | microsecond |
| Distance | 10-9m | nm | nanometre (wavelength) |
| 10-6m | μm | micrometre (wavelength) |
| m | m | metre |
| 103m | km | kilometre |
| Percentage | % | % | percentage |
| Temperature | K | K | degree Kelvin |
| C | C | degree Celsius |
| Angle | ° | deg | degree |
| rad | rad | radian |
| Solid Angle | sr | sr | steradian |
| Pressure | hPa | hPa | hectoPascal |
| Ozone | kg.m-2 | kg.m-2 | kilogram per square metre |
| Dimensionless quantities | nc | nc | numerical counts |
| dl | dl | dimensionless |
| Multiple dimension quantities | md | md | table constituted with different
physical parameters having
different units |
Table 2: General quantities and their units.
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