Join us to learn about NASA's archive for physical oceanography data in the context of Open Science. We'll provide you with an introduction to remote sensing and in situ products at NASA's Physical Oceanography Distributed Active Archive Center (PO.DAAC) and show you how to work with these data in the cloud.
The Sentinel-6 Michael Freilich satellite, the first of two identical spacecraft, was successfully launched into Earth orbit on Saturday, 21 November 2020 to continue sea level observations for at least the next decade. The data from this mission is coming into the PO.DAAC, the official NASA archive for the Sentinel-6 Michael Freilich mission and physical oceanography data in general. You can read more about the launch and the mission here.
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.
SWOT will provide high spatial resolution sea surface heights and water height measurements of large rivers and lakes. This survey is designed to help quantify user requirements on the SWOT data distribution and archive system hosted by JPL through PO.DAAC in support of science and applications users. If you are interested in using SWOT data please fill out the survey to help design the data distribution system.
The ISS-RapidScat Project has officially announced the end of operations of the ISS-RapidScat Mission as a result of numerous failed attempts to restore power to the RapidScat from the ISS Columbus module. The root cause of the power outage remains unknown. A robotic survey is currently underway to assess whether the site connecting RapidScat to the Columbus module (known as the SDX interface) is still viable for future payloads. Planning is now underway to determine the course and scheduling for future data reprocessing deliveries to the PO.DAAC.
The PO.DAAC is pleased to announce the public release of the “QuikSCAT Level 2B Ocean Wind Vectors in 12.5km Slice Composites Version 3.1” (hereafter L2B Version 3.1) dataset. This dataset consists of Version 3.1 Level 2B (L2B) science-quality ocean surface wind vector retrievals from the Quick Scatterometer (QuikSCAT). L2B data are in an along-track/cross-track swath grid with a pixel (wind vector cell) resolution of 12.5 km.
The QuikSCAT Science Data Systems team has recently delivered an updated batch of approximately two more months of data for the Level 1C dataset, bringing the dataset time series up to 12 August 2016 (calendar day 255), as made available here: http://podaac.jpl.nasa.gov/dataset/QSCAT_L1C_NONSPINNING_SIGMA0_WINDS_V1
The PO.DAAC is pleased to announce the public release of the “QuikSCAT Level 1C Averaged Sigma-0 and Winds from Non-spinning Antenna Version 1.0” (hereafter L1C) dataset, which contains geo-located and averaged Level 1B Sigma-0 measurements and wind retrievals from QuikSCAT throughout a majority of the non-spinning phase of the QuikSCAT mission. During this time period the instrument was maneuvered in a unique manner to acquire backscatter data from OceanSat-2 and RapidScat incidence angles to allow cross-calibration.
We are pleased to announce that reprocessing of all Jason-1 data, as version “E”, is now complete and available for download.
The PO.DAAC would like to inform users of Aquarius data of the following official NASA announcement regarding the Aquarius/SAC-D mission.
http://www.nasa.gov/press-release/international-spacecraft-carrying-nasa-s-aquarius-instrument-ends-operations
