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This study, focusing on Ocean Color radiometric operational products from the Sentinel-3 Ocean and Land Colour Instrument (OLCI), aims at investigating where in the European seas the results of match-up analyses at the European marine AERONET-OC sites could be applicable. Data clustering is applied to OLCI remote sensing reflectance RRS(\u03bb) from the various sites to define different sets of optical classes, which are later used to identify class-based uncertainties. A set of fifteen classes grants medium-to-high classification levels to most European seas, with exceptions in the South-East Mediterranean Sea, the Atlantic Ocean, or the Gulf of Bothnia. In these areas, RRS(\u03bb) spectra are very often identified as novel with respect to the generated set of classes, suggesting their under-representation in AERONET-OC data. Uncertainties are finally mapped onto European seas according to class membership. 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