Name: Aquarius L3 Weekly Polar-Gridded Normalized Radar Cross Section, Version 4
Creator: National Snow and Ice Data Center
Keywords: RADAR CROSS-SECTION

Aquarius L3 Weekly Polar-Gridded Normalized Radar Cross Section, Version 4

Data set id:

AQ3_NRCS

DOI: 10.5067/Aquarius/AQ3_NRCS.004

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Brucker, L., Dinnat, E. & Koenig, L. (2014). Aquarius L3 Weekly Polar-Gridded Normalized Radar Cross Section. (AQ3_NRCS, Version 4). [Data Set]. Boulder, Colorado USA. NASA National Snow and Ice Data Center Distributed Active Archive Center. https://doi.org/10.5067/Aquarius/AQ3_NRCS.004. [describe subset used if applicable]. Date Accessed 10-31-2025.

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Version Summary

Version 4 of Aquarius L3 Weekly Polar-Gridded Normalized Radar Cross Section utilizes Version 3 of the Aquarius Level-2 NRCS as input data. This is the first version available from NSIDC.

Overview

The data set consists of weekly polar-gridded Level-3 products of Aquarius L-band Normalized Radar Cross Section (NRCS) 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):

RADAR CROSS-SECTION

Platform(s):

SAC-D

Sensor(s):

AQUARIUS_SCATTEROMETER

Data Format(s):

HDF

Temporal Coverage:

25 August 2011 to 7 June 2015

Temporal Resolution:

7 day

Spatial Resolution:

36 km

36 km

Spatial Reference System(s):

Not Specified

Spatial Coverage:

N:
-50
S:
-79
E:
180
W:
-180
N:
87.4
S:
50
E:
180
W:
-180

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