2021-02-19 |
Integrated Multi-Mission Ocean Altimeter Sea Surface Height (SSH) Level 2 version 5.0 Datasets Release |
The PO.DAAC is pleased to announce the public release of the Integrated Multi-Mission Ocean Altimeter Sea Surface Height (SSH) Level 2 version 5.0 datasets, which are an extension of the NASA Making Earth System Data Records for Use in Research Environments (MEaSUREs) Program. More information... |
2021-02-05 |
CYGNSS Climate Data Record Version 1.1 Datasets Release |
The PO.DAAC is pleased to announce the public release of the CYGNSS Climate Data Record (CDR) Version 1.1 (v1.1) datasets. More information regarding the CYGNSS mission and instrumentation is available from PO.DAAC’s mission webpage. The CDR Version 1.1... |
2021-01-08 |
Global Mean Sea Level Trend from Integrated Multi-Mission Ocean Altimeters TOPEX/Poseidon, Jason-1, OSTM/Jason-2, and Jason-3 Version 5.0 Dataset Release |
The PO.DAAC is pleased to announce the public release of the Global Mean Sea Level (GMSL) trend Version 5.0 dataset from the Making Earth System Data Records for Use in Research Environments (MEaSUREs) ... |
2020-12-11 |
JPL SMAP Sea Surface Salinity (SSS) CAP V5.0 Dataset Release |
The PO.DAAC is pleased to announce the availability of the PI-produced JPL V5.0 SMAP Sea Surface Salinity (SSS) and extreme winds data, which includes Level-2B (L2B) and Level 3 (L3) standard datasets based on the JPL Combined Active-Passive (CAP) algorithm applied to data from the NASA Soil... |
2020-12-04 |
CYGNSS Level 1 Full Delay Doppler Map (DDM) Version 3.0 Dataset Release |
The PO.DAAC is pleased to announce the public release of the CYGNSS Level 1 Full Delay Doppler Map (DDM) Version 3.0 dataset from the Delay Doppler Mapping Instrument (DDMI) aboard the CYGNSS satellite constellation. More... |
2020-12-02 |
Sentinel-6 Michael Freilich Satellite Now in Orbit |
The Sentinel-6 Michael Freilich satellite, the first of two identical spacecraft, was successfully launched into Earth orbit on Saturday, 21 November 2020 to continue sea level observations for at least the next decade. You can read more about the launch and the mission... |
2020-11-19 |
Sentinel-6 Michael Freilich Expected to Launch November 21 |
NASA is targeting Saturday, 21 November 2020 for the launch of the Sentinel-6 Michael Freilich satellite, the first of two identical satellites to head into Earth orbit five years apart to continue sea level observations for at least the next decade.
The Sentinel-6/Jason-CS mission is part of... |
2020-11-13 |
CYGNSS Level 3 Soil Moisture from UCAR/CU Version 1.0 Dataset Release |
The PO.DAAC is pleased to announce the public release of the CYGNSS Level 3 Soil Moisture Version 1.0, representing the first published land-based geophysical dataset derived from CYGNSS. More information regarding the CYGNSS mission and instrumentation is available from... |
2020-11-03 |
Error in MODIS Aqua/Terra L2P/L3 SST datasets |
It has been discovered that the MODIS Aqua/Terra Level 2P/Level 3 sea surface temperature (SST) datasets produced since 1 September 2020 have an input error from the MERRA-2 auxiliary dataset used in the SST derivation for the “Refined” SST files. These files will be reprocessed once the error is... |
2020-10-28 |
CYGNSS Science Data Record Version 3.0 Datasets Release |
The PO.DAAC is pleased to announce the public release of the CYGNSS Science Data Record (SDR) Version 3.0 datasets. The SDR Version 3.0 collection provides a total of 3 unique datasets, each... |
2020-10-26 |
Discontinuation of CYGNSS Ocean Surface Heat Flux SDR V1.0 Data Production |
Due to the recent release of the CYGNSS Ocean Surface Heat Flux Climate Data Record (CDR) v1.0 (DOI: 10.5067/CYGNS-C2H10) dataset producing data at the same latency and frequency as the older Science Data Record (SDR) v1.0 (DOI:... |
2020-10-09 |
CYGNSS Level 2 Ocean Surface Heat Flux CDR Version 1.0 Dataset Release |
The PO.DAAC is pleased to announce the public release of the CYGNSS Level 2 Ocean Surface Heat Flux Climate Data Record (CDR) Version 1.0. More information regarding the CYGNSS mission and instrumentation is available from... |
2020-10-07 |
Suomi-NPP VIIRS SST Outage |
On September 24, Suomi-NPP performed an "Inclination Adjust Maneuver" (https://www.star.nesdis.noaa.gov/icvs/SNPP_Anomalies.php). During the maneuver, the NOAA ACSPO VIIRS SST products from NPP were negatively affected and... |
2020-10-06 |
New PO.DAAC Web Portal Dataset Search and Discovery |
PO.DAAC is continuing its transition towards a web portal that is content centered, data driven, and provides personalized user experiences that are supplemented with efficient search and discovery capabilities.
In this second phase, a user will experience improvements in the PO.DAAC Web Portal... |
2020-10-01 |
Reconstructed GMSL from GRACE and In Situ 1900 to 2018 Dataset Release |
The PO.DAAC is pleased to announce the public release of Reconstructed Global Mean Sea Level (GMSL) from GRACE and In Situ observations 1900 to 2018. The dataset was produced by JPL scientist Thomas Frederikse and his colleagues for their recent Nature publication (Frederikse et al., 2020) under... |
2020-09-28 |
NOAA CYGNSS Level 2 Science Wind Speed 25-km Version 1.1 Dataset Release |
The PO.DAAC is pleased to announce the public release of the NOAA CYGNSS Level 2 Science Wind Speed 25-km Product Version 1.1. More information regarding the CYGNSS mission and instrumentation is available from PO.DAAC’s mission webpage.
This... |
2020-09-16 |
Upcoming American Customer Satisfaction Index (ACSI) Survey |
This week, Physical Oceanography Distributed Active Archive Center (PO.DAAC) users will receive an email invitation from CFI Group (noreply@feedback.cfigroup.com) on behalf of NASA. This message will ask you to participate in a web-based survey of... |
2020-09-04 |
QuikSCAT Level 2B Version 4.1 Dataset Release |
The PO.DAAC is pleased to announce the public release of the QuikSCAT Level 2B Ocean Wind Vectors in 12.5km Slice Composites version 4.1 dataset. More information regarding the QuikSCAT mission and instrumentation is available from PO.DAAC’s mission webpage... |
2020-08-26 |
OMG CTD L2 Version 1 Dataset Release |
The PO.DAAC is pleased to announce the public release of the Oceans Melting Greenland (OMG) Conductivity, Temperature and Depth (CTD) Level 2 (L2) Version 1 dataset. More information regarding OMG is available from the project website and... |
2020-08-25 |
MODIS Aqua outage |
On Aug 16, 2020 the NASA Aqua satellite experienced an anomaly with the onboard Formatter-Multiplexer Unit (FMU) that has affected the real time processing streams for all Aqua instruments including for MODIS and the L2/L3 Sea Surface Temperature datasets distributed by the PO.DAAC.
The health/... |