PO.DAAC

EUMETSAT has established a decommissioning plan for the MetOp-A spacecraft, it’s associated instrument payload, and has started coordinating a data production decommissioning plan with data production centers and stakeholders such as the EUMETSAT Data Centre, KNMI at OSI SAF and NOAA. As a key distribution center for many datasets from MetOp-A including SST from the IASI and AVHRR infrared instruments, and ocean wind from the ASCAT radar, the PO.DAAC would like the users to be informed of these plans in advance of decommissioning.

As detailed in the 12 July 2021 announcement, the PO.DAAC data archive is being migrated to the NASA Earthdata Cloud, hosted in Amazon Web Services (AWS). This transition to the cloud is taking place in several phases.

In an effort to best support the users as they begin transitioning their workflows or data access points to a cloud-based process, PO.DAAC is making the existing datasets from its archive available from and within the Earthdata Cloud as soon as they are available.

We are pleased to announce recently-added datasets in the PO.DAAC State of the Ocean (SOTO) visualization tool.

• Sea Surface Temperature: AVHRR_MetOp-A_L3U_Sea_Surface_Temperature_v2.80_STD (DOI: 10.5067/GHMTA-3US28)
• Sea Surface Temperature: AVHRR_MetOp-B_L3U_Sea_Surface_Temperature_v2.80_STD (DOI: 10.5067/GHMTB-3US28)
• Sea Surface Temperature: AVHRR_MetOp-C_L3U_Sea_Surface_Temperature_v2.80_STD (DOI: 10.5067/GHMTC-3US28)
• Ocean Surface Wind: CYGNSS_L3_Wind_Speed_CDR_Daily_v1.1_STD (DOI: 10.5067/CYGNS-L3C11)

The PO.DAAC is pleased to announce the public release of the ancillary data for the (Estimating the Circulation and Climate of the Ocean) ECCO Version 4 Release 4 (V4r4) ocean and sea-ice state estimate. ECCO ocean and sea-ice state estimates are dynamically and kinematically-consistent reconstructions of the three-dimensional, time-evolving ocean, sea-ice, and surface atmospheric states (ECCO Consortium, 2021).