The HYPERNETSproject (www.hypernets.eu) has the overall aim to ensure that high quality in situ measurements are available to support the (VNIR/SWIR) optical Copernicus products. Therefore, it established a new autonomoushyperspectral spectroradiometer (HYPSTAR® - www.hypstar.eu) dedicated to land and water surface reflectance validationwith instrument pointing capabilities.In the prototype phase, the instrument is being deployed at 24 sites covering a range of water and land types and a range of climatic and logistic conditions. This dataset provides the first published data for the HYPERNETS site at the measurement pole near the Zeebrugge harbour 3.65km from land, often called MOW1, in Belgium (M1BE). It is a subset of the complete data record which consistsof the best quality M1BE measurements which could be usedfor satellite validation. The providedNetCDF files are the L2A hypernets products with water leaving radiance and reflectances, with and without NIR Similarity Correction (see Ruddick et al., 2006, DOI: 10.2307/3841124 ). The reflectance in the L2A products isthe Water Reflectance without NIR Similarity Correction (referred to as reflectance_nosc in the file) defined as: ( ho_wnosc=pi (Lu- ho_FLd)/E_d) where Lu is the upwelling radiance (at 40° zenith angle, and, 90° or 135° azimuth angle relative to the sun), Ld is the downwelling radiance (at 140° zenith angle, and, 90° or 135° azimuth angle relative to the sun). Ed is the (hemispherical)downwelling irradiance (i.e. including both direct solar and diffuse sky irradiance). For the M1BE site, the reflectance corrected for the NIR Similarity correction (epsilon, see Ruddick et al., 2006) is also provided: ( ho_w=pi (Lu- ho_FLd)/E_d-epsilon) These reflectances have dimensions of wavelength and series, where each series is a set of measurements for the computation of a water reflectance measurement. In addition to variables forwavelength and bandwidth, the files also contain variables that provide for each series the acquisition time, viewing ...