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The PO.DAAC is pleased to announce the availability of Surface Water and Ocean Topography (SWOT) mission sample L2 data products and the associated documents for both oceanography and hydrology. These sample data products have been provided by the SWOT project and generated by the Centre National d’Études Spatiales (CNES) and Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL) algorithm teams. This release of sample data products is intended to enable users to become familiar with the format and content of the expected science data products from the SWOT mission.

It has come to our attention that a large number of netCDF granules in the most recent version 2019.0 Terra L2P SST dataset (https://doi.org/10.5067/GHMDT-2PJ19) have an incorrect value in the file-level global metadata for the version. For the erroneous granules, the global metadata attribute “product_version” has a value of “2014.0” instead of “2019.0”.

We are pleased to announce an update to the PO.DAAC High-Level Tool for Interactive Data Extraction (HiTIDE) tool. Version 4.8.2 is now available online at https://podaac-tools.jpl.nasa.gov/hitide/. For questions or to provide feedback, please visit the HiTIDE Forum.

With the impending arrival of high-volume data from new missions such as the Surface Water and Ocean Topography (SWOT), the need to effectively archive and distribute significantly larger data volumes is critically important for PO.DAAC operations. To meet these needs, PO.DAAC is migrating its data archive to the NASA Earthdata Cloud, hosted in Amazon Web Services (AWS).

As PO.DAAC and other Earth Science data move into the Cloud, end users will be able to do more than ever, enabling multidisciplinary and interdisciplinary science and its application through large-scale analytics and cloud computing. For more information visit Earthdata Cloud Evolution page.