Soil Moisture Active Passive (SMAP) L1-L3 Ancillary NOAA Data, Version 1
Data set id:
SMAP_L1_L3_ANC_NOAA
DOI: 10.5067/6PD81ZNAOGMN
This is the most recent version of these data.
Version Summary
Version Summary
Initial release
Overview
This ancillary SMAP product contains six dynamic data sets originally produced by NOAA or NOAA-affiliated organizations.
1) NCEP Geophysical Forecast System modeled data provided in 6-hour time steps
2) Daily Reynolds Sea Surface Temperature data
3) Snow Cover data from NOAA Interactive Multisensor Snow and Ice Mapping System
4) NOAA Solar Radio Flux
5) GPS-derived total electron content used to compute the Faraday rotation correction for the SMAP radar
6) Instantaneous wave height measures
Parameter(s):
SEA ICE
SEA SURFACE TEMPERATURE
SIGNIFICANT WAVE HEIGHT
SNOW COVER
SOLAR RADIO WAVE EMISSIONS
Platform(s):
NOT APPLICABLE
Sensor(s):
NOT APPLICABLE
Data Format(s):
netCDF-3
ASCII
Temporal Coverage:
- 31 January 2015 to present
Temporal Resolution:
- Not applicable
Spatial Resolution:
- not applicable
- not applicable
Spatial Reference System(s):
Not Specified
Spatial Coverage:
- N:86.4S:-86.4E:180W:-180
Blue outlined yellow areas on the map below indicate the spatial coverage for this data set.
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General Questions & FAQs
This article covers frequently asked questions about the NASA NSIDC DAAC's Earthdata cloud migration project and what it means to data users.
SMAP Ancillary data sets are used to produce SMAP Level-1, -2, -3, and -4 standard data products.
The NASA National Snow and Ice Data Center Distributed Active Archive Center (NSIDC DAAC) is migrating its primary data access from its legacy, on-premises archive to the NASA Earthdata Cloud.
How to Articles
Many NSIDC DAAC data sets can be accessed using NSIDC DAAC's Data Access Tool. This tool provides the ability to search and filter data with spatial and temporal constraints using a map-based interface.Users have the option to: