PO.DAAC is reaching out to you to follow up on your effort to utilize PO.DAAC Drive for browsing and retrieving data at PO.DAAC. Our goal is to reduce the operational impact to our users that are transitioning away from anonymous FTP, and also provide a higher level of operational support and service.
We are pleased to announce an update to the PO.DAAC State of the Ocean (SOTO) visualization tool.
Version 4.3.0 is now available online at https://podaac-tools.jpl.nasa.gov/soto/. For questions or to provide feedback, please visit the State Of The Ocean (SOTO) Forum.
The PO.DAAC is pleased to announce the availability of the version 3.0 SMAP Sea Surface Salinity (SSS) data from Remote Sensing Systems (RSS). Several enhancements over the previous release are implemented including:
The Cyclone Global Navigation Satellite System (CYGNSS) is a NASA Earth System Science Pathfinder Mission that is intended to collect the first frequent space‐based measurements of surface wind speeds in the inner core of tropical cyclones. Made up of a constellation of eight micro-satellites, the observatories provide nearly gap-free Earth coverage using an orbital inclination of approximately 35° from the equator, with a mean (i.e., average) revisit time of seven hours and a median revisit time of three hours.
Blue colors show cool sea surface temperature anomalies of 2 degrees Kelvin associated with the passage of hurricane Willa.
Jessica Hausman, Data Engineer, Dr. Lewis John McGibbney, Data Scientist and Engineer and Ed Armstrong, Senior Data Engineer participated in a NASA Earthdata webinar on October 24, 2018, entitled " Goodbye FTP, New Ways to Access NASA's Physical Oceanography Data at PO.DAAC.”
Hurricane Willa captured by SOTO on October 22 prior to making landfall.
SOTO captures Hurricane Willa in a true color image from the Moderate Resolution Imaging Spectroradiometer onboard the Aqua platform.
Please join us for the upcoming NASA Earthdata Webinar "Goodbye FTP, New Ways to Access NASA's Physical Oceanography Data at PO.DAAC" on Wednesday, October 24th!
NASA is in the process of deprecating the use of the FTP protocol for data and information access. In line with these efforts, the Physical Oceanography Distributed Active Archive Center (PO.DAAC) is pleased to offer Drive as a robust FTP alternative for browsing and retrieving physical oceanography data at PO.DAAC (podaac-tools.jpl.nasa.gov/drive/).
SOTO in Action!
A true color image of MODIS overlaid on SST Anomaly in the Gulf as Hurricane Michael made landfall on October 10, 2018.
