Auxiliary Material Submission for Paper 2014JC010355 
          
Retrieving the vertical distribution of chlorophyll a concentration and phytoplankton community composition from in situ fluorescence profiles: A method based on a neural network with potential for global-scale applications.

R. Sauzède[1,2] , H. Claustre[1,2], C. Jamet[3], J. Uitz[1,2],  J. Ras[1,2], A. Mignot[4] and F. D’Ortenzio[1,2]

[1]{Laboratoire d’Océanographie de Villefranche, CNRS, UMR7093, Villefranche-Sur-Mer, France}
[2]{Université Pierre et Marie Curie-Paris 6, UMR7093, Laboratoire d’océanographie de Villefranche, Villefranche-Sur-Mer, France}
[3]{Laboratoire d’Océanologie et de Géosciences, UMR8187, ULCO/CNRS, Wimereux, France}
[4]{Department of Earth, Atmospheric and Planetary Sciences, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, Massachusetts, USA}

Introduction 

Two of the figures in this supplementary information present specifically the data used to build the method. 
These figures present the geographical distributions of the data used for the training and the validation of the neural network. 
The other figures present more statistical results for the validation of the neural network for several major geographical zones.

1. FigureS1.pdf Geographic distribution of the 717 stations used in the training dataset.
2. FigureS2.pdf Geographic distribution of the 179 stations used in the validation dataset.
3. FigureS3.pdf Geographic distribution of the 7 major oceanic basins used in the statistical analysis of the method performance.
4. FigureS4.pdf Determination coefficient (R²) of the linear models and MAPD (Median Absolute Percent Difference) between [TChl] retrieved by the MLP ([TChl]MLP) and HPLC reference ([TChl]HPLC) values computed for the major oceanic basins defined in Figure S3. The number of points corresponding to each basin is identified in bracket. The MAPD is presented here divided by 100 so values range is 0-1.
5. FigureS5.pdf Determination coefficient (R²) of the linear models and MAPD (Median Absolute Percent Difference) between [microChl] retrieved by the MLP ([microChl]MLP) and HPLC reference ([microChl]HPLC) values computed for the major oceanic basins defined in Figure S3. The number of points corresponding to each basin is identified in bracket. The MAPD is presented here divided by 100 so values range is 0-1.
6. FigureS6.pdf Determination coefficient (R²) of the linear models and MAPD (Median Absolute Percent Difference) between [nanoChl] retrieved by the MLP ([nanoChl]MLP) and HPLC reference ([nanoChl]HPLC) values computed for the major oceanic basins defined in Figure S3. The number of points corresponding to each basin is identified in bracket. The MAPD is presented here divided by 100 so values range is 0-1.
7. FigureS7.pdf Determination coefficient (R²) of the linear models and MAPD (Median Absolute Percent Difference) between [picoChl] retrieved by the MLP ([picoChl]MLP) and HPLC reference ([picoChl]HPLC) values computed for the major oceanic basins defined in Figure S3. The number of points corresponding to each basin is identified in bracket. The MAPD is presented here divided by 100 so values range is 0-1.
8. CODE.zip Matlab and R Codes of the algorithm. Each sub-directory has a readme.txt.