NASA-SSH Along-Track Sea Surface Height from Standardized Reference Missions Version 1

Description

The NASA-SSH Along-Track Sea Surface Height from Standardized Reference Missions Version 1 dataset produced by NASA provide observations of sea surface height, or sea level, anomaly measured using radar altimeter satellites in the reference mission orbit. These include TOPEX/Poseidon, the Jason series, and Sentinel-6. The data begin in Oct 1992, with data from TOPEX/Poseidon, and continues to the present. In this data set all missions have been referenced to a common baseline, additional quality control has been performed, and errors with wavelengths around one orbital cycle have been reduced.
The data consist of along-track observations of sea surface height, collected approximately once per second (1 Hz), and are parsed into files containing one day’s worth of data per file. A flag variable is included to allow users to easily select only valid observations, and a variable containing sea surface height with the flag applied and a small amount along track smoothing (~20 km), is suggested for most users.
Additionally, a “basin” flag variable is provided, along with a table defining it. This allows users to easily select all observations from a specific body of water. The basin flag assigns a number to each point corresponding to a specific ocean basin or lake. A table is included with a text description of each basin number. A text version of that table is available (https://archive.podaac.earthdata.nasa.gov/podaac-ops-cumulus-docs/web-misc/nasa-ssh/basin_name_table.txt). The basin definitions can be downloaded as a shape file from https://archive.podaac.earthdata.nasa.gov/podaac-ops-cumulus-docs/web-misc/nasa-ssh/basin_polygon_files.tar.gz, or as a kml file https://archive.podaac.earthdata.nasa.gov/podaac-ops-cumulus-docs/web-misc/nasa-ssh/NASA-SSH_Basins.kmz.
New data will be released approximately once per week, with a latency of a few weeks.

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5 https://podaac.jpl.nasa.gov%2FNASA-SSH
5 https://podaac.jpl.nasa.gov%2FCitingPODAAC
5 https://archive.podaac.earthdata.nasa.gov%2Fpodaac-ops-cumulus-docs%2Fweb-misc%2Fnasa-ssh%2FNASA-SSH_V1_UserGuide.pdf
5 https://podaac.jpl.nasa.gov%2Fforum
5 https://cmr.earthdata.nasa.gov%2Fvirtual-directory%2Fcollections%2FC3309450672-POCLOUD
5 https://search.earthdata.nasa.gov%2Fsearch%2Fgranules%3Fp%3DC3309450672-POCLOUD
5 https://podaac.jpl.nasa.gov%2FPodaac%2Fthumbnails%2FNASA_SSH_REF_ALONGTRACK_V1.jpg
5 https://archive.podaac.earthdata.nasa.gov%2Fpodaac-ops-cumulus-docs%2Fweb-misc%2Fnasa-ssh%2Fbasin_name_table.txt
5 https://archive.podaac.earthdata.nasa.gov%2Fpodaac-ops-cumulus-docs%2Fweb-misc%2Fnasa-ssh%2Fbasin_connection_table.txt
5 https://archive.podaac.earthdata.nasa.gov%2Fpodaac-ops-cumulus-docs%2Fweb-misc%2Fnasa-ssh%2Fbasin_polygon_files.tar.gz
5 https://archive.podaac.earthdata.nasa.gov%2Fpodaac-ops-cumulus-docs%2Fweb-misc%2Fnasa-ssh%2FNASA-SSH_Basins.kmz
5 https://doi.org%2F10.5281%2Fzenodo.13910542
5 https://podaac.jpl.nasa.gov/NASA-SSH
5 https://podaac.jpl.nasa.gov/CitingPODAAC
33 NASA-SSH_V1_UserGuide.pdf https://archive.podaac.earthdata.nasa.gov/podaac-ops-cumulus-docs/web-misc/nasa-ssh/NASA-SSH_V1_UserGuide.pdf
5 https://podaac.jpl.nasa.gov/forum
5 https://cmr.earthdata.nasa.gov/virtual-directory/collections/C3309450672-POCLOUD
5 https://search.earthdata.nasa.gov/search/granules?p=C3309450672-POCLOUD
22 NASA_SSH_REF_ALONGTRACK_V1.jpg https://podaac.jpl.nasa.gov/Podaac/thumbnails/NASA_SSH_REF_ALONGTRACK_V1.jpg
5 basin_name_table.txt https://archive.podaac.earthdata.nasa.gov/podaac-ops-cumulus-docs/web-misc/nasa-ssh/basin_name_table.txt
5 basin_connection_table.txt https://archive.podaac.earthdata.nasa.gov/podaac-ops-cumulus-docs/web-misc/nasa-ssh/basin_connection_table.txt
5 basin_polygon_files.tar.gz https://archive.podaac.earthdata.nasa.gov/podaac-ops-cumulus-docs/web-misc/nasa-ssh/basin_polygon_files.tar.gz
5 NASA-SSH_Basins.kmz https://archive.podaac.earthdata.nasa.gov/podaac-ops-cumulus-docs/web-misc/nasa-ssh/NASA-SSH_Basins.kmz
21 https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.13910542
34 PRECIP_AMSR2_GCOMW1.png https://docserver.gesdisc.eosdis.nasa.gov/public/project/Images/PRECIP_AMSR2_GCOMW1.png
5 https://disc.gsfc.nasa.gov/datasets/PRECIP_AMSR2_GCOMW1_1/summary
33 20220601_P-FCDR_ATBD.pdf https://docserver.gesdisc.eosdis.nasa.gov/public/project/MEaSUREs/Kidd/20220601_P-FCDR_ATBD.pdf
33 Readme_FCDR.pdf https://measures.gesdisc.eosdis.nasa.gov/data/Precipitation/PRECIP_AMSR2_GCOMW1.1/doc/Readme_FCDR.pdf
5 https://measures.gesdisc.eosdis.nasa.gov/data/Precipitation/PRECIP_AMSR2_GCOMW1.1/
5 https://search.earthdata.nasa.gov/search?q=PRECIP_AMSR2_GCOMW1
21 contents.html https://measures.gesdisc.eosdis.nasa.gov/opendap/Precipitation/PRECIP_AMSR2_GCOMW1.1/contents.html
5 https://podaac.jpl.nasa.gov/NASA-SSH
5 https://podaac.jpl.nasa.gov/CitingPODAAC
33 NASA-SSH_V1_UserGuide.pdf https://archive.podaac.earthdata.nasa.gov/podaac-ops-cumulus-docs/web-misc/nasa-ssh/NASA-SSH_V1_UserGuide.pdf
5 https://podaac.jpl.nasa.gov/forum
5 https://cmr.earthdata.nasa.gov/virtual-directory/collections/C3309450672-POCLOUD
5 https://search.earthdata.nasa.gov/search/granules?p=C3309450672-POCLOUD
22 NASA_SSH_REF_ALONGTRACK_V1.jpg https://podaac.jpl.nasa.gov/Podaac/thumbnails/NASA_SSH_REF_ALONGTRACK_V1.jpg
47 basin_name_table.txt https://archive.podaac.earthdata.nasa.gov/podaac-ops-cumulus-docs/web-misc/nasa-ssh/basin_name_table.txt
47 basin_connection_table.txt https://archive.podaac.earthdata.nasa.gov/podaac-ops-cumulus-docs/web-misc/nasa-ssh/basin_connection_table.txt
19 basin_polygon_files.tar.gz https://archive.podaac.earthdata.nasa.gov/podaac-ops-cumulus-docs/web-misc/nasa-ssh/basin_polygon_files.tar.gz
5 NASA-SSH_Basins.kmz https://archive.podaac.earthdata.nasa.gov/podaac-ops-cumulus-docs/web-misc/nasa-ssh/NASA-SSH_Basins.kmz
5 https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.13910542
0 The metadata's original source. https://cmr.earthdata.nasa.gov/search/concepts/C3309450672-POCLOUD.iso19115

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