Scheduled System Upgrade of the PO.DAAC State of the Ocean (SOTO)
The PO.DAAC State of the Ocean (SOTO) will be temporarily unavailable during the scheduled upgrade window. We apologize for the inconvenience.
GHRSST GDS2 Level 4 NCDC AVHRR_OI SST Dataset Production Resumed
2017-06-27
The NOAA's National Centers for Environmental Information (NCEI) has resumed the production of its GHRSST GDS2 Level 4 Sea Surface Temperature AVHRR_OI dataset (https://podaac.jpl.nasa.gov/dataset/AVHRR_OI-NCEI-L4-GLOB-v2.0). The data are now current and users are encouraged to access this high quality long time series dataset.
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Public Release of the GHRSST VIIRS-NPP L2P Sea Surface Temperature (SST) dataset version 2016.0 from the Ocean Biology Processing Group (OBPG)
2017-06-22
The PO.DAAC is pleased to announce the release of the version 2016.0 VIIRS-NPP Level-2P Sea Surface Temperature (SST) dataset in collaboration with the NASA Ocean Biology Processing Group (OBPG). The OBPG VIIRS-NPP L2 SST has been reformatted at the PO.DAAC JPL to be in compliance with the Group for High Resolution Sea Surface Temperature (GHRSST) Data Processing Specification version 2 (GDS2). This dataset contains global near daily-coverage day (D) and night (N) Level 2P SST with 750 m spatial resolution.
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GRACE Tellus Level-3 ocean-mass data product
2017-06-20
Please be informed that PO.DAAC has released two important statements for the JPL GRACE Tellus Level-3 ocean-mass product (ftp//podaac-ftp.jpl.nasa.gov/allData/tellus/L3/ocean_mass/RL05/ascii/).
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Soiled soils
Featured on the NASA Earthdatawebsite. 'Soiled soild', Invisible pollutants lurk under Italy's most populous valley.
To read article, please visit: https://earthdata.nasa.gov/user-resources/sensing-our-planet/soiled-soils.
JPL Scheduled Network Maintenance
Please be informed that PO.DAAC public services may not be available during the JPL Scheduled Network Maintenance window this Saturday, June 3, 2017 (8:00 a.m.-9:00 a.m PDT).
Error in GHRSST MODIS Aqua and Terra Level 2 datasets resolved
2017-05-30
The metadata error in the data granules of GHRSST GDS2 MODIS Aqua (https://podaac.jpl.nasa.gov/dataset/MODIS_A-JPL-L2P-v2014.0) and Terra (https://podaac.jpl.nasa.gov/dataset/MODIS_T-JPL-L2P-v2014.0) Level 2 Datasets since April 13, 2017 has been fixed, and we have successfully reprocessed the affected granules.
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2017 Ticket to Explore JPL
PO.DAAC staff members showcased oceanographic data using State of the Ocean (SOTO) visualization capabilities at JPL's 2017 Open House.
2017 Ticket to Explore JPL
PO.DAAC showcased visualization capabilities at the 2017 "A Ticket to Explore JPL" , which was a smashing success with approximately 22,000 visitors.
Sensing Our Planet article highlighting PODAAC data
Featured on the NASA Earthdata website. “Crisis in the Crescent”, Drought turns the Fertile Crescent into a dust bowl.
To read article, please visit: https://earthdata.nasa.gov/user-resources/sensing-our-planet/crisis-in-the-crescent