Aquarius L3 Weekly Polar-Gridded Sea Surface Salinity, Version 5
Data set id:
AQ3_SSS
DOI: 10.5067/Aquarius/AQ3_SSS.005
This is the most recent version of these data.
Version Summary
Version Summary
Version 5 of Aquarius L3 Weekly Polar-Gridded Sea Surface Salinity utilizes Version 4 of the Level-2 Aquarius SSS as input data.
Overview
This data set consists of weekly gridded Level-3 products of Aquarius L-band radiometer 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):
ICE FRACTIONSALINITY
Platform(s):
SAC-D
Sensor(s):
AQUARIUS_RADIOMETER
Data Format(s):
HDF5, HDF5
Temporal Coverage:
25 August 2011 to 4 June 2015
Temporal Resolution:
- 7 day
Spatial Resolution:
- 36 km
- 36 km
Spatial Reference System(s):
WGS 84 / NSIDC EASE-Grid 2.0 North
EPSG:6931
WGS 84 / NSIDC EASE-Grid 2.0 South
EPSG:6932
Spatial Coverage:
N:
-50
S:
-79
E:
180
W:
-180
N:
87.4
S:
50
E:
180
W:
-180
Blue outlined yellow areas on the map below indicate the spatial coverage for this data set.
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