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Multi-scale Ultra-high Resolution Sea Surface Temperature
Multi-scale Ultra-high Resolution Sea Surface Temperature
NASA's Physical Oceanography Distributed Active Archive Center (PO.DAAC) is located at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena, California. PO.DAAC manages and provides tools and services for NASA's oceanographic and hydrologic data (satellite, airborne, and in-situ) to enable greater understanding of the physical processes and condition of the global ocean. Measurements include gravity, ocean winds, sea surface temperature, ocean surface topography, sea surface salinity, and circulation. The data support a wide range of applications including climate research, weather prediction, resource management, policy, and the stewardship of ocean data resources.

Sample data holdings include Aquarius, Soil Moisture Active Passive (SMAP), Gravity Recovery and Climate Experiment(GRACE), GRACE Follow-on (GRACE-FO), NASA Scatterometer (NSCAT), Quick Scatterometer (QuikSCAT), Rapid Scatterometer (RapidScat), Cyclone Global Navigation Satellite System (CYGNSS), TOPEX/POSEIDON, Jason-1, Group for High Resolution Sea Surface Temperature (GHRSST), Oceans Melting Greenland (OMG), Salinity Processes in the Upper Ocean Regional Study (SPURS), and Making Earth System Data Records for Use in Research Environments (MEaSUREs).

Data access services include PO.DAAC Drive, Thematic Real-time Environmental Distributed Data Services (THREDDS), Open-source Project for a Network Data Access Protocol (OPeNDAP), PO.DAAC Web Services, and PO.DAAC GitHub repository.

Tools that provide subsetting, extraction, and visualization capabilities include High-level Tool for Interactive Data Extraction (HiTIDE), Live Access Server (LAS), and State of the Ocean (SOTO).

Contact Information

Suresh Vannan, DAAC Manager
Mike Gangl, DAAC System Engineer
Dr. Michelle Gierach, DAAC Scientist
Ed Armstrong, DAAC Data Engineer
John Klose, DAAC Operations Lead

Jet Propulsion Laboratory
4800 Oak Grove Drive
Pasadena, CA 91109

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The entire PO.DAAC data holdings are maintained online for instant download via standard FTP. PO.DAAC also hosts online search and access tools that give users the ability to identify and select the specific data that meets a particular need. In addition, the PO.DAAC web portal provides a forum for users to access information related to the data holdings and learn about the utility of the data for ocean and climate research.

Access the PO.DAAC forums

DAAC fact sheet:

PO.DAAC one pager

GHRSST fact sheet:

GHRSST one pager

SOTO fact sheet:

SOTO one pager

Links

  • PO.DAAC Icon Glaciers Ice Sheets
    Glaciers - Ice Sheets

  • PO.DAAC Icon Gravity Gravitational Field
    Gravity/Gravitational Field

  • PO.DAAC Icon Ocean Circulation
    Ocean Circulation

  • PO.DAAC Icon Ocean Heat Budget
    Ocean Heat Budget

  • PO.DAAC Icon Ocean Surface Topography
    Ocean Surface Topography

  • PO.DAAC Icon Ocean Temperature
    Sea Surface Temperature

  • PO.DAAC Icon Ocean Waves
    Ocean Waves

  • PO.DAAC Icon Ocean Winds
    Ocean Winds

  • PO.DAAC Icon Salinity Density
    Salinity/Density

  • PO.DAAC Icon Sea Ice
    Sea Ice

  • PO.DAAC Icon Surface Water
    Surface Water

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    Webinar: GHRSST Data Discovery and Access Tools

    This webinar will feature select Global High-Resolution Sea Surface Temperature (GHRSST) data products, data discovery and data access tools.

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    Webinar: GHRSST Sea Surface Temperature Data Discovery and Access

    This webinar will feature select Global High-Resolution Sea Surface Temperature (GHRSST) data products, data discovery and data access tools.

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    Webinar: Discover and Use NASA Physical Oceanography Data

    This webinar will provide an overview of NASA's physical oceanography data products and demonstrate various tools and services to discover, visualize, subset and obtain those data.

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    Webinar: NASA Aquarius Data Training Session #1

    Learn the basics of Aquarius/SAC-D from Dr. Tony Lee (JPL); Become familiar with Aquarius salinity data resources; Understand the structure of Aquarius data

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    Webinar: NASA Aquarius Data Training Session #2

    Discover Aquarius data from the PO.DAAC;Access Aquarius data using a variety of tools

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    Webinar: NASA Aquarius Data Training Session #3

    Use Aquarius Level-3 data visualization tools; Tips on communicating your “salinity story" effectively

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    Discover, Access, and Subset NASA Physical Oceanography Data

    Demonstrate how to use the HiTIDE data subsetting tool for physical oceanography swath-based data at NASA's Physical Oceanography Distributed Active Archive Center (PO.DAAC) and will showcase how to use the PO.DAAC Drive, which provides http-based access to NASA's physical oceanography data holdings

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    Webinar: NASA PO.DAAC State Of The Ocean: I spy with my little eye something...

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