June 24, 2022
This animation depicts simulated surface water features for a series of consecutive SWOT passes over North America. They closely resemble Level 2 terrestrial hydrology datasets that will be generated by SWOT. The feature datasets are stored in shapefiles containing river reaches (polylines; approximately 10 km long) and nodes (points; approximately 200 m spacing) identified in the Prior River Database (PRD), as well as lake features identified in Prior Lake Database (PLD).
March 24, 2022
Animation of ocean temperature and salinity as measured by a Seaglider on a deployment from October 2019 to January 2020 off the coast of Guam. This is one of the three Seagliders from the Adaptive Sampling of Rain and Ocean Salinity from Autonomous Seagliders (Guam 2019-2020) dataset. The dataset can be accessed from the PO.DAAC Portal at https://podaac.jpl.nasa.gov/dataset/SEAGLIDER_GUAM_2019 (https://doi.org/10.5067/ASROS-GLGU1). The Seaglider is an autonomous profiler measuring salinity and temperature in the upper ocean.
March 23, 2022
Animation of the EUMETSAT OSI SAF GHRSST L3C sub-skin Sea Surface Temperature v1.0 derived from the Advanced Baseline Imager (ABI) on board the Geostationary Operational Environmental Satellite-16 (GOES-16) covering the period of 2017-Dec-14 to Present. (https://doi.org/10.15770/EUM_SAF_OSI_NRT_2015)
March 22, 2022
Animation of the EUMETSAT OSI SAF GHRSST L3C reprocessed sub-skin Sea Surface Temperature data record v1.0 derived from Spinning Enhanced Visible and InfraRed Imager (SEVIRI) on the MSG satellites (Meteosat-8 and Meteosat-9) covering the period of 2004-Jan-19 to 2012-Dec-31. (https://doi.org/10.15770/EUM_SAF_OSI_0004)
February 28, 2022
Animation of the NAVO GHRSST L2P Sea Surface Temperature v1.0 derived from the GOES Imager onboard the Electro-Optical Infrared Weather System – Geostationary satellites covering the period of Dec. 06, 2021 to present. (https://doi.org/10.5067/GHEG1-2PN01)
February 22, 2022
Animation of the Multi-Mission Optimally Interpolated Sea Surface Salinity (OISSS) monthly level 4 global dataset based on the AQUARIUS/SAC-D, SMAP and SMOS level 2 mission data gridded on a 0.25 degree spatial grid with a monthly time scale. The dataset covers the period from September 2011 to the August 2021, and is produced at the International Pacific Research Center (IPRC) of the University of Hawaii at Manoa in collaboration with the Remote Sensing Systems (RSS), Santa Rosa, California. (https://doi.org/10.5067/SMP10-4UMCS).
February 3, 2022
This animation depicts the upper ocean turbulence by rendering the ocean temperature on a cold-warm color palette. Blue represents the colder (denser) water mostly found in the deeper and/or higher latitude oceans. Red color represents the warmer sea water found on the upper layers of the ocean. Oceanic fronts, similar to the fronts in the atmosphere that generate strong winds and weather, are formed in the upper ocean when cold and warm waters meet sideways. These fronts and their evolution are associated with strong vertical mixing and transports.
January 27, 2022
Animation of the NOAA/STAR GHRSST L3U Sea Surface Temperature v2.80 derived from the Visible Infrared Imaging Radiometer Suite (VIIRS) onboard Suomi-NPP satellites covering the period of February 1st, 2012 to present. (https://www.doi.org/10.5067/GHVRS-3UO28)
January 27, 2022
Animation of ocean surface current speed over the period January 2020 to December 2021 based on the OSCAR (Ocean Surface Current Analysis Real-time) Level 4, quarter degree grid with a 1 day resolution dataset from Earth & Space Research (ESR). Please note that the missing data are represented by the gray color. OSCAR ocean mixed layer velocities are provided at three quality levels: Final, Interim and Near Real Time with a respective latency of each of approximately 1 year, 1 month, and 2 days.
December 20, 2021
Animation of the retrieved ocean surface wind speed over the period of 1 August 2018 to 10 December 2021, produced using the CYGNSS Level 3 Science Data Record (SDR) Version 3.1 dataset, which provides wind speed data retrieved from the Delay Doppler Mapping Instrument (DDMI) aboard the CYGNSS satellite constellation. The dataset can be accessed from the PO.DAAC Portal at https://doi.org/10.5067/CYGNS-L3X31 (DOI: 10.5067/CYGNS-L3X31).