Aquarius L2 Swath Single Orbit Soil Moisture, Version 5
This data set contains Level-2 global soil moisture estimates derived from the NASA Aquarius passive microwave radiometer on the Satélite de Aplicaciones Científicas (SAC-D).
This is the most recent version of these data.
Changes to this version include:
- Updated Version 5 Aquarius brightness temperature data were used as input
- File-level metadata were modified to more closely align with Climate and Forecast (CF) metadata
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Bindlish, R. and T. Jackson. 2018. Aquarius L2 Swath Single Orbit Soil Moisture, Version 5. [Indicate subset used]. Boulder, Colorado USA. NASA National Snow and Ice Data Center Distributed Active Archive Center. doi: https://doi.org/10.5067/GB6FZ0UPCOGP. [Date Accessed].