Remote Sensing Ocean Productivity Products.
Various remote sensing ocean productivity products exist, derived from different satellites and different empirical models. The products can be used for BGC model validation, forcing ecological models, and general BGC/satellite oceanography.
This data is all downloadable on the OSU ocean productivity page as individual .tar files for each (8-day) times step. I suspect hosting gridded yearly or climatologic files would be useful.
Core products include NPP from VgPM and NPP from CbPM (which are two fundamentally different algorithms for estimating NPP), Chlorophyll (from different satellites if desired), phytoplankton biomass, phytoplankton specific division rates, and various associated physical properties need to estimate the rate terms.
Diagnostic Products that I could contribute include grazing rates estimate from the carbon budget which will be used to help validate WOMBAT v2 and could be useful to the ecology community.
More information on the data sets available is here:
http://sites.science.oregonstate.edu/ocean.productivity/site.php
More information on the emprical models is here:
http://sites.science.oregonstate.edu/ocean.productivity/vgpm.model.php