Aquarius Official Release Level 3 Sea Surface Density Standard Mapped Image Ascending Monthly Climatology Data V5.0

Aquarius Level 3 sea surface density standard mapped image data contains gridded 1 degree spatial resolution density data averaged over daily, 7 day, monthly, and seasonal time scales. This particular data set is the monthly climatology, Ascending sea surface density product for version 5.0. Only retrieved values for Ascending passes have been used to create this product. Surface density estimates are based on TEOS-10 and derived using retrieved salinity from Aquarius and collocated ancillary SST (Reynolds OI 0.25 degree product). The Aquarius instrument is onboard the AQUARIUS/SAC-D satellite, a collaborative effort between NASA and the Argentinian Space Agency Comision Nacional de Actividades Espaciales (CONAE). The instrument consists of three radiometers in push broom alignment at incidence angles of 29, 38, and 46 degrees incidence angles relative to the shadow side of the orbit. Footprints for the beams are: 76 km (along-track) x 94 km (cross-track), 84 km x 120 km and 96km x 156 km, yielding a total cross-track swath of 370 km. The radiometers measure brightness temperature at 1.413 GHz in their respective horizontal and vertical polarizations (TH and TV). A scatterometer operating at 1.26 GHz measures ocean backscatter in each footprint that is used for surface roughness corrections in the estimation of salinity. The scatterometer has an approximate 390km swath.

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citation NASA Aquarius project. 2017-12-07. Aquarius Official Release Level 3 Sea Surface Density Standard Mapped Image Ascending Monthly Climatology Data. Version 5.0. Aquarius Sea Surface Salinity Products. Goddard Space Flight Center, 8800 Greenbelt Rd.; Greeenbelt, MD., 20771, USA. Archived by National Aeronautics and Space Administration, U.S. Government, NASA/GSFC OBPG. https://doi.org/10.5067/AQR50-3DUAE. http://podaac.jpl.nasa.gov/SeaSurfaceSalinity/Aquarius. NASA Aquarius project, NASA/GSFC OBPG, 2017-12-07, Aquarius Official Release Level 3 Sea Surface Density Standard Mapped Image Ascending Monthly Climatology Data V5.0, http://podaac.jpl.nasa.gov/SeaSurfaceSalinity/Aquarius.
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notes Aquarius Level 3 sea surface density standard mapped image data contains gridded 1 degree spatial resolution density data averaged over daily, 7 day, monthly, and seasonal time scales. This particular data set is the monthly climatology, Ascending sea surface density product for version 5.0. Only retrieved values for Ascending passes have been used to create this product. Surface density estimates are based on TEOS-10 and derived using retrieved salinity from Aquarius and collocated ancillary SST (Reynolds OI 0.25 degree product). The Aquarius instrument is onboard the AQUARIUS/SAC-D satellite, a collaborative effort between NASA and the Argentinian Space Agency Comision Nacional de Actividades Espaciales (CONAE). The instrument consists of three radiometers in push broom alignment at incidence angles of 29, 38, and 46 degrees incidence angles relative to the shadow side of the orbit. Footprints for the beams are: 76 km (along-track) x 94 km (cross-track), 84 km x 120 km and 96km x 156 km, yielding a total cross-track swath of 370 km. The radiometers measure brightness temperature at 1.413 GHz in their respective horizontal and vertical polarizations (TH and TV). A scatterometer operating at 1.26 GHz measures ocean backscatter in each footprint that is used for surface roughness corrections in the estimation of salinity. The scatterometer has an approximate 390km swath.
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title Aquarius Official Release Level 3 Sea Surface Density Standard Mapped Image Ascending Monthly Climatology Data V5.0