PO.DAAC

PO.DAAC is pleased to announce the dataset release of the S-MODE Pilot Field Campaign, which provides shipboard, in-situ, and airborne measurements from a variety of instruments and platforms during October 2021. S-MODE is funded by NASA through the Earth Venture Suborbital (EVS-3) program and is testing the hypothesis that submesoscale ocean dynamics, i.e. processes with scales of 1-10 km, make important contributions to vertical exchange of physical, chemical and biological variables in the upper ocean.

Mark your calendars! Thursday, December 15th is the targeted date for launch of the SWOT satellite from Vandenberg Space Force Base at 3:46 AM PST. Live launch coverage can be seen on NASA’s website: https://www.nasa.gov/live For more information about the upcoming Dec. 15th

PODAAC is pleased to announce that 179 more datasets have completed migration into our new cloud-based archive in NASA’s Earthdata Cloud, which is hosted in Amazon Web Services (AWS). Information and tutorials describing how to access these datasets can be found on the Cloud Data Migration Page. 

The CYGNSS team has been unable to contact CYGNSS FM06 since 2022-11-16 21:32:27 UTC. The last data from FM06 that was processed into CYGNSS L1, L2, and L3 products occurred at 2022-11-26 21:30:29 UTC.

We are pleased to announce that the new State of the Ocean (SOTO) is deployed and operational through a new URL at https://soto.podaac.earthdatacloud.nasa.gov/.

This is a part of the transition to the cloud. The new SOTO is powered by NASA EOSDIS Worldview, based on a cloud-native implementation. The current SOTO will be retired and no longer accessible in March or April, 2023. We will provide further notifications.

PODAAC is pleased to announce that 11 more datasets have completed migration into our new cloud-based archive in NASA’s Earthdata Cloud, which is hosted in Amazon Web Services (AWS). Information and tutorials describing how to access these datasets can be found on the Cloud Data Migration Page. Users may also find the PO.DAAC Webinar (August 2021) useful as they begin their journey to using cloud-based data.

The Submesoscale Ocean Dynamics and Vertical Transport Experiment (S-MODE) is a NASA Earth Venture Suborbital (EVS-3) mission that utilizes research aircraft equipped with state-of-the-art remote sensing instruments, a research vessel, Wave Gliders, Saildrones, and many other in situ assets. These instruments contribute to an unprecedented view of the physics of submesoscale eddies and fronts, and their effects on vertical transport in the upper ocean.

The PO.DAAC is pleased to announce the public release of the GRACE-FO (GF) Level-2 Monthly Geopotential Spherical Harmonics RL06.1 datasets from the Project Science Data System teams at the Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL), German Research Centre for Geosciences (GFZ), and Center for Space Research (CSR).

This release includes three GRACE-FO Level-2 RL06.1 datasets, which are updated from the previous RL06 datasets (DOI: 10.5067/GFL20-MC060, 10.5067/GFL20-MJ060, and 10.5067/GFL20-MG060). The RL06.1 uses the updated L1B calibration product (ACX) which is an updated hybrid accelerometer-transplant that uses observations from both the GF1 and GF2 accelerometers to reduce measurement errors.