Aquarius Official Release Level 3 Sea Surface Salinity Standard Mapped Image Descending 28-Day Running Mean Data V5.0

Description

Aquarius Level 3 sea surface salinity (SSS) standard mapped image data contains gridded 1 degree spatial resolution SSS averaged over daily, 7 day, monthly, and seasonal time scales. This particular data set is the 28-Day running mean, Descending sea surface salinity product for version 5.0 of the Aquarius data set, which is the official end of mission public data release from the AQUARIUS/SAC-D mission. Only retrieved values for Descending passes have been used to create this product. The Aquarius instrument is onboard the AQUARIUS/SAC-D satellite, a collaborative effort between NASA and the Argentinian Space Agency Comision Nacional de Actividades Espaciales (CONAE). The instrument consists of three radiometers in push broom alignment at incidence angles of 29, 38, and 46 degrees incidence angles relative to the shadow side of the orbit. Footprints for the beams are: 76 km (along-track) x 94 km (cross-track), 84 km x 120 km and 96km x 156 km, yielding a total cross-track swath of 370 km. The radiometers measure brightness temperature at 1.413 GHz in their respective horizontal and vertical polarizations (TH and TV). A scatterometer operating at 1.26 GHz measures ocean backscatter in each footprint that is used for surface roughness corrections in the estimation of salinity. The scatterometer has an approximate 390km swath.

Resources

Name Format Description Link
33 ATBD, Validation Analysis, Product Specifications, etc https://archive.podaac.earthdata.nasa.gov/podaac-ops-cumulus-docs/aquarius/open/docs/v5/EDinnat_etal_Paper_SkyTBMap_Lband.pdf
21 Information on observatory maneuvers, anomalies and other events https://oceancolor.gsfc.nasa.gov/sdpscgi/public/aquarius_report.cgi
57 ATBD, Validation Analysis, Product Specifications, etc https://archive.podaac.earthdata.nasa.gov/podaac-ops-cumulus-docs/aquarius/open/docs/v5/AquariusATBDdocuments_10.5067-DOCUM-AQR04.zip
21 Mission and Instrument Overview https://podaac.jpl.nasa.gov/aquarius
21 NASA Aquarius/SAC-D mission website https://aquarius.nasa.gov/
21 Data Use and Citation Policy https://podaac.jpl.nasa.gov/CitingPODAAC
21 HTTPS endpoint for data browse and download https://cmr.earthdata.nasa.gov/virtual-directory/collections/C2491756624-POCLOUD
33 ATBD, Validation Analysis, Product Specifications, etc https://archive.podaac.earthdata.nasa.gov/podaac-ops-cumulus-docs/aquarius/open/docs/v5/AQ-010-UG-0008_AquariusUserGuide_DatasetV5.0.pdf
33 ATBD, Validation Analysis, Product Specifications, etc https://archive.podaac.earthdata.nasa.gov/podaac-ops-cumulus-docs/aquarius/open/docs/v5/AQ-014-PS-0017_AquariusATBD_Level2_Addendum5_DatasetVersion5.0.pdf
33 ATBD, Validation Analysis, Product Specifications, etc https://archive.podaac.earthdata.nasa.gov/podaac-ops-cumulus-docs/aquarius/open/docs/v5/AQ-014-PS-0017_AquariusATBD_Level2_EndofMission_DatasetVersion5.0.pdf
33 ATBD, Validation Analysis, Product Specifications, etc https://archive.podaac.earthdata.nasa.gov/podaac-ops-cumulus-docs/aquarius/open/docs/v5/AQ-014-PS-0017_Aquarius_ATBD-EndOfMission.pdf
33 ATBD, Validation Analysis, Product Specifications, etc https://archive.podaac.earthdata.nasa.gov/podaac-ops-cumulus-docs/aquarius/open/docs/v5/AQ-014-PS-0017_Aquarius_AntennaPatternCoefficientUpdates_DatasetVersion3.0.pdf
33 ATBD, Validation Analysis, Product Specifications, etc https://archive.podaac.earthdata.nasa.gov/podaac-ops-cumulus-docs/aquarius/open/docs/v5/AQ-014-PS-0017_Aquarius_L2toL3ATBD_DatasetVersion5.0.pdf
33 ATBD, Validation Analysis, Product Specifications, etc https://archive.podaac.earthdata.nasa.gov/podaac-ops-cumulus-docs/aquarius/open/docs/v5/AQ-014-PS-0018_AquariusLevel2specification_DatasetVersion5.0.pdf
33 ATBD, Validation Analysis, Product Specifications, etc https://archive.podaac.earthdata.nasa.gov/podaac-ops-cumulus-docs/aquarius/open/docs/v5/AQ-014-PS-0018_Ocean_Level-3_Standard_Mapped_Image_Products.pdf
33 ATBD, Validation Analysis, Product Specifications, etc https://archive.podaac.earthdata.nasa.gov/podaac-ops-cumulus-docs/aquarius/open/docs/v5/AQ-014-PS-0029_Aquarius_counts_to_TA.pdf
33 ATBD, Validation Analysis, Product Specifications, etc https://archive.podaac.earthdata.nasa.gov/podaac-ops-cumulus-docs/aquarius/open/docs/v5/AQ-017-AquariusMissionSummary.pdf
33 ATBD, Validation Analysis, Product Specifications, etc https://archive.podaac.earthdata.nasa.gov/podaac-ops-cumulus-docs/aquarius/open/docs/v5/Aquarius_RFI_products_UserGuide.pdf
33 ATBD, Validation Analysis, Product Specifications, etc https://archive.podaac.earthdata.nasa.gov/podaac-ops-cumulus-docs/aquarius/open/docs/v5/Aquarius_V5.0-V4.0_SummaryOfChanges.pdf
33 ATBD, Validation Analysis, Product Specifications, etc https://archive.podaac.earthdata.nasa.gov/podaac-ops-cumulus-docs/aquarius/open/docs/v5/UserGuideAquariusCelestialSkyMicrowaveEmissionMapProduct.pdf
33 ATBD, Validation Analysis, Product Specifications, etc https://archive.podaac.earthdata.nasa.gov/podaac-ops-cumulus-docs/aquarius/open/docs/v5/AQ-014-PS-0006_ProposalForFlags&Masks_DatasetVersion3.0.pdf
33 ATBD, Validation Analysis, Product Specifications, etc https://archive.podaac.earthdata.nasa.gov/podaac-ops-cumulus-docs/aquarius/open/docs/v5/AQ-014-PS-0017_AquariusScatterometerCalibrationReview.pdf
21 Search results for publications that cite this dataset by its DOI. https://scholar.google.com/scholar?q=10.5067%2FAQR50-3SRDS
57 ATBD, Validation Analysis, Product Specifications, etc https://archive.podaac.earthdata.nasa.gov/podaac-ops-cumulus-docs/aquarius/open/docs/v5/AQ-014-PS-0017_Aquarius_ATBD-EndOfMission_Supplements.zip
33 ATBD, Validation Analysis, Product Specifications, etc https://archive.podaac.earthdata.nasa.gov/podaac-ops-cumulus-docs/aquarius/open/docs/v5/AQ-014-PS-0028_V5_AVDS_Tech_Memo.pdf
33 ATBD, Validation Analysis, Product Specifications, etc https://archive.podaac.earthdata.nasa.gov/podaac-ops-cumulus-docs/aquarius/open/docs/v5/AQ-014-PS-0016_AquariusSalinityDataValidationAnalysis_DatasetVersion5.0.pdf
22 Thumbnail https://podaac.jpl.nasa.gov/Podaac/thumbnails/AQUARIUS_L3_SSS_SMID_28DAY-RUNNINGMEAN_V5.jpg
21 Browse granule search results in Earthdata Search https://search.earthdata.nasa.gov/search/granules?p=C2491756624-POCLOUD
33 ATBD, Validation Analysis, Product Specifications, etc https://archive.podaac.earthdata.nasa.gov/podaac-ops-cumulus-docs/aquarius/open/docs/v5/AQ-014-PS-0017_Performance_Degradation_and_QC_Flagging_of_Aquarius_L2_Salinity_Retrievals_V4.pdf
33 ATBD, Validation Analysis, Product Specifications, etc https://archive.podaac.earthdata.nasa.gov/podaac-ops-cumulus-docs/aquarius/open/docs/v5/AQ-014-PS-0030_Full_Range_Cal_27Feb18.pdf

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  • salinity-density
  • oceans
  • earth-science

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