S-MODE DopplerScatt Level 2 Ocean Winds and Currents Version 1

Description

This dataset contains concurrent airborne DopplerScatt radar retrievals of surface vector winds and ocean currents from the Sub-Mesoscale Ocean Dynamics Experiment (S-MODE) during a pilot campaign conducted approximately 300 km offshore of San Francisco over two weeks in October 2021. S-MODE aims to understand how ocean dynamics acting on short spatial scales influence the vertical exchange of physical and biological variables in the ocean. DopplerScatt is a Ka-band (35.75 GHz) scatterometer with a swath width of 24 km that records Doppler measurements of the relative velocity between the platform and the surface. It is mounted on a B200 aircraft which flies daily surveys of the field domain during deployments, and data is used to give larger scale context, and also to compare with in-situ measurements of velocities and divergence. Level 2 data includes estimates of surface winds and currents. The V1 data have been cross-calibrated against SIO-DopVis leading to the 'dopvis_2021' current geophysical model function. It is expected that additional DopVis data will lead to a reprocessing of this data set and it should be regarded as provisional, to be refined after future S-MODE deployments. Data are available in netCDF format.

Resources

Name Format Description Link
5 https://podaac.jpl.nasa.gov%2FCitingPODAAC
5 http://smode.whoi.edu%2F
5 http://podaac.jpl.nasa.gov%2Fs-mode
5 https://cmr.earthdata.nasa.gov%2Fvirtual-directory%2Fcollections%2FC2110184925-POCLOUD
5 https://search.earthdata.nasa.gov%2Fsearch%2Fgranules%3Fp%3DC2110184925-POCLOUD
5 https://github.com%2Fpodaac%2Fdata-readers
5 https://espo.nasa.gov%2Fs-mode%2Fcontent%2FS-MODE_2022_Open_Data_Workshop
5 https://espo.nasa.gov%2Fs-mode%2Fcontent%2FS-MODE_2022_ODW_Recording_and_Presentations
5 https://github.com%2Fpodaac%2F2022-SMODE-Open-Data-Workshop
5 https://espo.nasa.gov%2Fsites%2Fdefault%2Ffiles%2Fdocuments%2FS-MODE_Pilot-Campaign_Field-Report.pdf
5 https://podaac.jpl.nasa.gov/CitingPODAAC
5 http://smode.whoi.edu/
5 http://podaac.jpl.nasa.gov/s-mode
5 https://search.earthdata.nasa.gov/search/granules?p=C2110184925-POCLOUD
5 https://github.com/podaac/data-readers
5 https://espo.nasa.gov/s-mode/content/S-MODE_2022_Open_Data_Workshop
5 https://espo.nasa.gov/s-mode/content/S-MODE_2022_ODW_Recording_and_Presentations
5 https://github.com/podaac/2022-SMODE-Open-Data-Workshop
33 S-MODE_Pilot-Campaign_Field-Report.pdf https://espo.nasa.gov/sites/default/files/documents/S-MODE_Pilot-Campaign_Field-Report.pdf
5 https://cmr.earthdata.nasa.gov/virtual-directory/collections/C2110184925-POCLOUD
0 The metadata's original source. https://cmr.earthdata.nasa.gov/search/concepts/C2110184925-POCLOUD.iso19115

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  • earth-science-atmospheric-winds-atmosphere-surface-winds
  • earth-science-ocean-circulation-oceans-ocean-currents-surface-currents
  • earth-science-radar-spectral-engineering-doppler-velocity

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