SWOT 2019-2020 Prelaunch Oceanography Field Campaign WHOI/NOAA Moored Fixed-Depth CTDs

Description

This dataset provides the conductivity, temperature and depth (CTD) measurements from the fixed-depth CTD sensors mounted on a full-depth mooring deployed by the SWOT prelaunch field campaign. The campaign was designed to test the performance of several instruments/platforms in meeting the SWOT Calibration/Validation (CalVal) requirement. It was conducted near the SWOT CalVal crossover location, about 300 kilometers west of Monterey, California between September, 2019 and January, 2020. These fixed-depth CTDs cover the full depth from the ocean surface to the bottom. The surface buoy is equipped with a Global Positioning System (GPS) https://doi.org/10.5067/SWTPR-GPS01. There is also an adjacent bottom pressure recorder https://doi.org/10.5067/SWTPR-BPR01. The campaign also deployed another two CTD moorings, a slocum glider, one bottom pressure recorder and one Pressure Inverted Echo Sounder. Details can be found in the user guide and the journal reference given in the documentation section.

Resources

Name Format Description Link
21 HTTPS endpoint for data browse and download https://cmr.earthdata.nasa.gov/virtual-directory/collections/C2229635779-POCLOUD
21 Field Campaign and Instrument Overview for SWOT http://podaac.jpl.nasa.gov/swot
33 User's Guide https://archive.podaac.earthdata.nasa.gov/podaac-ops-cumulus-docs/web-misc/SWOT/SWOT_Prelaunch_2019_2020/User_Guide_SWOT_Prelaunch_2019_2020.pdf
21 Browse granule search results in Earthdata Search https://search.earthdata.nasa.gov/search/granules?p=C2229635779-POCLOUD
21 Generic data readers https://github.com/podaac/data-readers
22 Thumbnail https://podaac.jpl.nasa.gov/Podaac/thumbnails/SWOT_PRELAUNCH_L2_WHOICTD_V1.jpg
21 Data Use and Citation Policy https://podaac.jpl.nasa.gov/CitingPODAAC
21 Search results for publications that cite this dataset by its DOI. https://scholar.google.com/scholar?q=10.5067%2FSWTPR-CTD11

Tags

  • salinity-density
  • oceans
  • ocean-temperature
  • ocean-pressure
  • earth-science

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