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AQ3_SSS

Aquarius L3 Weekly Polar-Gridded Sea Surface Salinity V005

This data set consists of weekly gridded Level-3 products of Aquarius L-band radiometer Sea Surface Salinity (SSS) retrievals from the Aquarius/Satélite de Aplicaciones Científicas (SAC-D) mission, developed collaboratively between the U.S. National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) and Argentina's space agency, Comisión Nacional de Actividades Espaciales (CONAE).

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Spatial Extent:

Bounding Rectangle:

N: 87.4 S: 50.0 E: 180.0 W: -180.0,

N: -50.0 S: -79.0 E: 180.0 W: -180.0

Data Format(s):

Distribution: HDF5

Temporal Extent:

2011-08-25 to 2015-06-04

Platform(s):

SAC-D

Data Center(s):

NASA/GSFC/EOS/EO

Instrument(s):

AQUARIUS_RADIOMETER

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Title: Aquarius L3 Weekly Polar-Gridded Sea Surface Salinity V005
Version: 5
Publisher: NASA National Snow and Ice Data Center Distributed Active Archive Center

GENERAL DOCUMENTATION: https://doi.org/10.5067/Aquarius/AQ3_SSS.005, Includes a user's guide, supplemental documents like ATBDs and academic papers, How Tos, FAQs, etc.

Purpose
Scientific Research
DOI
10.5067/Aquarius/AQ3_SSS.005
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Processing Level

Level 3

Geophysical variables mapped on a grid

Quality

Collection Progress
Planned

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CLIMATOLOGY/METEOROLOGY/ATMOSPHERE
OCEANS

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Name: AscendingDescendingFlg STRING Description: Satellite Direction
Name: SIPSMetGenVersion STRING Description: The version of the SIPSMetGen software used to produce the metadata file for this granule
Name: identifier_product_doi STRING Description: Digital object identifier that uniquely identifies this data product
Name: identifier_product_doi_authority STRING Description: URL of the digital object identifier resolving authority

Coverage Type	Zone Identifier	Geometry	Granule Representation
HORIZONTAL		CARTESIAN	CARTESIAN

Location Keywords

- Continent
- Antarctica
- Geographic Region
- Arctic

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ARCHIVER
- National Snow and Ice Data Center
  CIRES, 449 UCB
  University of Colorado
  Boulder, CO 80309-0449
1 303 492 6199

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- National Snow and Ice Data Center
  CIRES, 449 UCB
  University of Colorado
  Boulder, CO 80309-0449
1 303 492 6199

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Archiving Data Center
https://nsidc.org/daac

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Originating Data Center
https://earthobservatory.nasa.gov/

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ORIGINATOR
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Originating Data Center
https://earthobservatory.nasa.gov/

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Technical Contact

NSIDC Services
- CIRES, 449 UCB
  University of Colorado
  Boulder, CO 80309-0449
1 303 492 6199

1 303 492 2468

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Ludovic Brucker
Technical Contact

Ludovic Brucker

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Emmanuel Dinnat
Technical Contact

Emmanuel Dinnat

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Lora Koenig
Technical Contact

Lora Koenig

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Ludovic Brucker
Technical Contact

Ludovic Brucker

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Email
Emmanuel Dinnat
Technical Contact

Emmanuel Dinnat

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This contact does not have any contact mechanisms listed.
Lora Koenig
Technical Contact

Lora Koenig

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NASA National Snow and Ice Data Center Distributed Active Archive Center
User Services

NASA National Snow and Ice Data Center Distributed Active Archive Center
- Boulder, Colorado
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Metadata Dates

Creation	2015-12-14T00:00:00.000Z
Last Revision	2020-02-19T00:00:00.000Z

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Format: HDF5

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NASA NSIDC DAAC

NASA NSIDC DAAC

NASA/GSFC/EOS/EO

NASA/GSFC/EOS/EO

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NSIDC Services

NSIDC Services

Ludovic Brucker

Ludovic Brucker

Emmanuel Dinnat

Emmanuel Dinnat

Lora Koenig

Lora Koenig

Ludovic Brucker

Ludovic Brucker

Emmanuel Dinnat

Emmanuel Dinnat

Lora Koenig

Lora Koenig

NASA National Snow and Ice Data Center Distributed Active Archive Center

NASA National Snow and Ice Data Center Distributed Active Archive Center

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