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The PO.DAAC is pleased to announce the public release of the JPL MEaSUREs Gridded Sea Surface Height Anomalies Level 4 Version 1812 datasets. There are 2 datasets, an interim dataset that has an optimal delay of 4 weeks, and reference dataset that is delayed approximately 2-3 months, with better orbit corrections so that the Sea Surface Height Anomalies are more accurate. The anomalies are measured from 2 altimetric satellites and then gridded using the kriging method.

DOI: https://doi.org/10.5067/GHM25-4FJ42

The PO.DAAC is pleased to announce the public release of the GHRSST Level 4 Multiscale Ultrahigh Resolution (MUR) 0.25deg Global Foundation Sea Surface Temperature Analysis (v4.2) Dataset (MUR25).

NOAA STAR has announced that four granules of S-NPP SST data contain defective results during the satellite inclination adjustment maneuver. The affected data are within the observation time coverage of 2019-09-26T16:10:00 and 2019-09-26T16:50:00, during which the sensor was pointing to the wrong direction. Unfortunately the reduced quality data was not flagged in the L1b data and resulted in SST anomalies (much too warm SST retrievals). Mostly, the affected area is around Japan/Australia region.

The Jason-2/Ocean Surface Topography Mission (OSTM), the third in a U.S.-European series of satellite missions designed to measure sea surface height, successfully ended its science mission on Oct. 1. NASA and its mission partners made the decision to end the mission after detecting deterioration in the spacecraft's power system.

The following message has been forwarded to all registered PO.DAAC users on behalf of the OSTM Team.