Aquarius L3 Weekly Polar-Gridded Brightness Temperature and Sea Surface Salinity, Version 4
Data set id:
AQ3_TB
DOI: 10.5067/Aquarius/AQ3_TB.004
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Version Summary
Version Summary
Version 4 of Aquarius L3 Weekly Polar-Gridded Brightness Temperature and Sea Surface Salinity utilizes Version 3 of the PO.DAAC Level-2 Aquarius TB as input data. This is the first version available from NSIDC.
Overview
The data set consists of weekly gridded Level-3 products of Aquarius L-band radiometer brightness temperature (TB) observations and Sea Surface Salinity (SSS) retrievals from the Aquarius/Satélite de Aplicaciones Científicas (SAC-D) mission, developed collaboratively between the U.S. National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) and Argentina's space agency, Comisión Nacional de Actividades Espaciales (CONAE).
Parameter(s):
BRIGHTNESS TEMPERATUREICE FRACTIONSEA SURFACE SALINITY
Platform(s):
SAC-D
Sensor(s):
AQUARIUS_RADIOMETER
Data Format(s):
HDF, HDF
Temporal Coverage:
25 August 2011 to 7 June 2015
Temporal Resolution:
- 7 day
Spatial Resolution:
- 36 km
- 36 km
Spatial Coverage:
N:
87.4
S:
50
E:
180
W:
-180
N:
-50
S:
-79
E:
180
W:
-180
Blue outlined yellow areas on the map below indicate the spatial coverage for this data set.
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This data set has been retired. There is a more recent version of these data.
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