Aquarius Official Release Level 3 Wind Speed Standard Mapped Image Ascending Seasonal Climatology Data V5.0
Aquarius Level 3 ocean surface wind speed standard mapped image data contains gridded 1 degree spatial resolution wind speed data averaged over daily, 7 day, monthly, and seasonal time scales. This particular data set is the seasonal climatology, Ascending wind speed product for version 5.0 of the Aquarius data set, which is the official end of mission public data release from the AQUARIUS/SAC-D mission. Only retrieved values for Ascending passes have been used to create this product. The Aquarius instrument is onboard the AQUARIUS/SAC-D satellite, a collaborative effort between NASA and the Argentinian Space Agency Comision Nacional de Actividades Espaciales (CONAE). The instrument consists of three radiometers in push broom alignment at incidence angles of 29, 38, and 46 degrees incidence angles relative to the shadow side of the orbit. Footprints for the beams are: 76 km (along-track) x 94 km (cross-track), 84 km x 120 km and 96km x 156 km, yielding a total cross-track swath of 370 km. The radiometers measure brightness temperature at 1.413 GHz in their respective horizontal and vertical polarizations (TH and TV). A scatterometer operating at 1.26 GHz measures ocean backscatter in each footprint that is used for surface roughness corrections in the estimation of salinity. The scatterometer has an approximate 390km swath.
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| Spatial Extent: | Bounding Rectangle: N: 90.0 S: -90.0 E: 180.0 W: -180.0 |
Data Format(s): | Distribution: HDF5 |
| Temporal Extent: | Platform(s): | Aquarius_SAC-D | |
| Data Center(s): | NASA/JPL/PODAAC, Physical Oceanography Distributed Active Archive Center, Jet Propulsion Laboratory, N | Instrument(s): | AQUARIUS_SCATTEROMETER |
| Version: | 5.0 | ||
- Other Citation Details: NASA Aquarius project, NASA/GSFC OBPG, 2017-12-07, Aquarius Official Release Level 3 Wind Speed Standard Mapped Image Ascending Seasonal Climatology Data V5.0, 10.5067/AQR50-3WVAS, http://podaac.jpl.nasa.gov/SeaSurfaceSalinity/Aquarius
- GENERAL DOCUMENTATION: https://podaac-tools.jpl.nasa.gov/drive/files/allData/aquarius/docs/v5/, ATBD, Validation Analysis, Product Specifications, etc
- GENERAL DOCUMENTATION: https://oceancolor.gsfc.nasa.gov/sdpscgi/public/aquarius_report.cgi, Information on observatory maneuvers, anomalies and other events
- USER'S GUIDE: https://podaac-tools.jpl.nasa.gov/drive/files/allData/aquarius/docs/v5/AQ-010-UG-0008_AquariusUserGuide_DatasetV5.0.pdf, Aquarius Data User's Guide
- GENERAL DOCUMENTATION: https://podaac-opendap.jpl.nasa.gov/opendap/allData/aquarius/L3/mapped/V5/climatology_seasonal/SCIA/, The OPeNDAP base directory location for the collection.
Collection Information
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DOI
10.5067/AQR50-3WVAS
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| AQUARIUS SAC-D | No campaigns listed. | No dates provided. |
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| HORIZONTAL | CARTESIAN | CARTESIAN |
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| Datum Name | Ellipsoid Name | Semi Major Axis | Flattening Ratio Denominator |
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| World Geodetic System 1984 | WGS 84 | 6378137 | 298.2572236 |
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Aquarius Project NASA/CONAE
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NASA/JPL/PODAAC
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Physical Oceanography Distributed Active Archive Center, Jet Propulsion Laboratory, N
ARCHIVERPhysical Oceanography Distributed Active Archive Center, Jet Propulsion Laboratory, NASA
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Format: HDF5
Format Type: Native