RSS SMAP Sea Surface Salinity Analysis

The Soil Moisture Active Passive (SMAP) satellite Sea Surface Salinity (SSS) V3.0 validated data are available from Remote Sensing Systems. The near-polar orbit of SMAP allows for complete global coverage of the oceans in 3 days with a repeat cycle of 8 days. Only Level-3 products of the SMAP SSS V3.0 validated release are archived in this dataset: * 8-day running averages * monthly averages * monthly (RF) rain-filtered averages All products are provided at two spatial resolutions: 40km and 70km. For most open ocean applications, the 70km products are the best to use as they have significantly lower noise. All files are in NetCDF 4 format and are CF/ACDD compliant.

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Questions? Email Resource Support Contact:

  • Zaihua Ji
    zji@ucar.edu
    UCAR/NCAR - Research Data Archive

Temporal Range

  • Begin:  2015-03-31T12:00:00Z
    End:  2022-07-07T12:00:00Z

Keywords

Resource Type dataset
Temporal Range Begin 2015-03-31T12:00:00Z
Temporal Range End 2022-07-07T12:00:00Z
Temporal Resolution N/A
Bounding Box North Lat N/A
Bounding Box South Lat N/A
Bounding Box West Long N/A
Bounding Box East Long N/A
Spatial Representation N/A
Spatial Resolution N/A
Related Links

Related Resource #1 : SMAP Salinity V3 Validated Release
Additional Information N/A
Resource Format NetCDF4 (Binary)
Standardized Resource Format NetCDF
Asset Size 22803 MB
Legal Constraints

Use of this dataset is subject to UCAR's Terms of Use, except that commercial use is generally not prohibited.
Access Constraints Registration on the RDA web site is a requirement for access to the data.
Software Implementation Language N/A

Resource Support Name Zaihua Ji
Resource Support Email zji@ucar.edu
Resource Support Organization UCAR/NCAR - Research Data Archive
Distributor NCAR Research Data Archive
Metadata Contact Name N/A
Metadata Contact Email rdahelp@ucar.edu
Metadata Contact Organization NCAR Research Data Archive

Author Remote Sensing Systems
Publisher Research Data Archive at the National Center for Atmospheric Research, Computational and Information Systems Laboratory
Publication Date 2019-01-23
Digital Object Identifier (DOI) https://doi.org/10.5065/5KAN-C040
Alternate Identifier ds285.5
Resource Version N/A
Topic Category oceans
Progress onGoing
Metadata Date 2024-01-03T15:11:33-07:00
Metadata Record Identifier edu.ucar.rda::ds285.5
Metadata Language eng; USA
Suggested Citation Remote Sensing Systems. (2019). RSS SMAP Sea Surface Salinity Analysis. Research Data Archive at the National Center for Atmospheric Research, Computational and Information Systems Laboratory. https://doi.org/10.5065/5KAN-C040. Accessed 19 April 2024.

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