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

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). 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. Data were collected approximately 300 km offshore of San Fransisco during a pilot campaign in October 2021, and two intensive operating periods (IOPs) in Fall 2022 and Spring 2023. 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 V2 data have been cross-calibrated against ADCPs, surface drifters, and the SIO-DopVis instrument collected during the Pilot and IOP1 campaigns. Additional DopVis data collected during IOP1 and IOP2, in addition to IOP2 ADCP and surface drifter data will lead to a reprocessing of this dataset, and it should be regarded as provisional. Data are available in netCDF format.

Resources

Name Format Description Link
21 Project Website for S-MODE hosted by Woods Hole Oceanographic Institute (WHOI) http://smode.whoi.edu/
21 Field Campaign and Instrument Overview for S-MODE http://podaac.jpl.nasa.gov/s-mode
22 Thumbnail https://podaac.jpl.nasa.gov/Podaac/thumbnails/SMODE_L2_DOPPLERSCATT_WIND_CURRENT_V1.jpg
21 Search results for publications that cite this dataset by its DOI. https://scholar.google.com/scholar?q=10.5067%2FSMODE-DSCT2-V2
21 Generic data readers https://github.com/podaac/data-readers
21 Data Use and Citation Policy https://podaac.jpl.nasa.gov/CitingPODAAC
21 Browse and download granules over HTTPS using the virtual directories https://cmr.earthdata.nasa.gov/virtual-directory/collections/C2639507467-POCLOUD
21 Browse granule search results in Earthdata Search https://search.earthdata.nasa.gov/search/granules?p=C2639507467-POCLOUD
21 2022 S-MODE Open Data Workshop Information https://espo.nasa.gov/s-mode/content/S-MODE_2022_Open_Data_Workshop
21 2022 S-MODE Open Data Workshop Presentations and Recordings https://espo.nasa.gov/s-mode/content/S-MODE_2022_ODW_Recording_and_Presentations
21 2022 S-MODE Open Data Workshop Code and Tutorials https://github.com/podaac/2022-SMODE-Open-Data-Workshop
33 S-MODE Pilot Campaign Field Report https://espo.nasa.gov/sites/default/files/documents/S-MODE_Pilot-Campaign_Field-Report.pdf

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  • oceans
  • atmosphere
  • spectral-engineering
  • radar
  • ocean-circulation
  • atmospheric-winds
  • earth-science

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