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RSS SMAP Level 3 Sea Surface Salinity Standard Mapped Image Monthly V6.0 Validated Dataset
Listed in NASA Earthdata CMR and NASA Data Portal — shown once because both records carry DOI 10.5067/smp60-3smcs
Description
The RSS SMAP Level 3 Sea Surface Salinity Standard Mapped Image Monthly V6.0 Validated Dataset produced by the Remote Sensing Systems (RSS) and sponsored by the NASA Ocean Salinity Science Team, is a validated product that provides orbital/swath data on sea surface salinity (SSS) derived from the NASA's Soil Moisture Active Passive (SMAP) mission. The SMAP satellite was launched on 31 January 2015 with a near-polar orbit at an inclination of 98 degrees and an altitude of 685 km.
It has an ascending node time of 6 pm and is sun-synchronous. With its 1000km swath, SMAP achieves global coverage in approximately 3 days, but has an exact orbit repeat cycle of 8 days. Malfunction of the SMAP scatterometer on 7 July, 2015, has necessitated the use of collocated wind speed, primarily from WindSat, for the surface roughness correction required for the surface salinity retrieval.
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The major changes in Version 6.0 from Version 5.0 are: (1) Removal of biases during the first few months of the SMAP mission that are related to the operation of the SMAP radar during that time. (2) Mitigation of biases that depend on the SMAP look angle. (3) Mitigation of salty biases at high Northern latitudes.
(4) Revised sun-glint flag. The RSS SMAP L3 monthly product includes data for a range of parameters: derived sea surface salinity (SSS) with SSS-uncertainty, rain filtered SMAP sea surface salinity, collocated wind speed, data and ancillary reference surface salinity data from HYCOM. Each data file is available in netCDF-4 file format and is averaged over one-month time intervals with about 7-day latency (after the end of the averaging period).
Data begins on April 1,2015 and is ongoing. Observations are global in extent with an approximate spatial resolution of 40KM. Note that while a SSS 40KM variable is also included in the product for most open ocean applications, The standard product of the SMAP Version 6.0 release is the smoothed salinity product with a spatial resolution of approximately 70 km.
Links
Get the data
- Resource opendap.earthdata.nasa.gov ↗
This dataset can be accessed with the Open-source Project for a Network Data Access Protocol (OPeNDAP) API framework. This service enables variable and dimensional subsetting. The URL redirects to a p
metadata API · download · from NASA CMR, data nasa gov
- Text images.remss.com/figures/missions/smap/bad_orbits.txt ↗
Dynamically updated RSS webpage listing L2 files with Bad Orbits
documentation · download · from NASA CMR, data nasa gov
- Information on Data Outages & Known Issues archive.podaac.earthdata.nasa.gov/podaac-ops-cumulus-docs/aquarius/open/README.KnownIssues.txt ↗
documentation · download · from NASA CMR, data nasa gov
- NASA SMAP Mission Website smap.jpl.nasa.gov ↗
documentation · download · from NASA CMR, data nasa gov
- Known issues README archive.podaac.earthdata.nasa.gov/podaac-ops-cumulus-docs/smap/open/L3/RSS/README.txt ↗
documentation · download · from NASA CMR, data nasa gov
- PDF archive.podaac.earthdata.nasa.gov/podaac-ops-cumulus-docs/smap/open/docs/V6/Release_V6.0.pdf ↗
ATBD, Validation Analysis, Product Specifications, etc
documentation · download · from NASA CMR, data nasa gov
- Resource remss.com/missions/smap ↗
Remote Sensing Systems SMAP Sea Surface Salinity Website
documentation · download · from NASA CMR, data nasa gov
- Generic data readers github.com/podaac/data-readers ↗
documentation · download · from NASA CMR, data nasa gov
- Data Use and Citation Guidelines podaac.jpl.nasa.gov/CitingPODAAC ↗
documentation · download · from NASA CMR, data nasa gov
- Text images.remss.com/figures/missions/smap/bad_ancillaries.txt ↗
Dynamically updated RSS webpage listing L2 files with missing ancillary data inputs
documentation · download · from NASA CMR, data nasa gov
- PDF archive.podaac.earthdata.nasa.gov/podaac-ops-cumulus-docs/smap/open/docs/V6/ATBD_EOM_final.pdf ↗
SMAP-SSS V6.0 Technical Guide (ATBD, Validation Analysis, Product Format Specification)
documentation · download · from NASA CMR, data nasa gov
- SMAP-SSS Project and Instrument Overview podaac.jpl.nasa.gov/smap ↗
documentation · download · from NASA CMR, data nasa gov
- Original Metadata cmr.earthdata.nasa.gov/search/concepts/C2832226365-POCLOUD.iso19115 ↗
download · from data nasa gov
- HTTPS endpoint for data browse and download cmr.earthdata.nasa.gov/virtual-directory/collections/C2832226365-POCLOUD ↗
download · from NASA CMR
- search.earthdata.nasa.gov /search/granules?p=C2832226365-POCLOUD ↗
Browse granule search results in Earthdata Search
download · from NASA CMR
- github.com /podaac/data-subscriber ↗
This dataset can be downloaded using the podaac-data-subscriber (the recommended tool for bulk downloading PO.DAAC data). It is a Python package for downloading one or many files using the command lin
download · from NASA CMR
- JPEG podaac.jpl.nasa.gov/Podaac/thumbnails/SMAP_RSS_L3_SSS_SMI_MONTHLY_V6.jpg ↗
download · preview image · from data nasa gov, NASA CMR
Where it is published
- NASA Data Portal dataset page data.nasa.gov/dataset/rss-smap-level-3-sea-surface-salinity-standard-mapped-… ↗
landing page · from data nasa gov
- DOI doi.org/10.5067/smp60-3smcs ↗
DOI / persistent id · from NASA CMR
Catalogue records · 3
- CMR UMM-JSON cmr.earthdata.nasa.gov/search/concepts/C2832226365-POCLOUD.umm_json ↗
metadata API · from NASA CMR
- CKAN API data.nasa.gov/api/3/action/package_show?id=024e0e34-d8df-44c0-a9dc-9a5dd6efd… ↗
metadata API · from data nasa gov
- CMR record cmr.earthdata.nasa.gov/search/concepts/C2832226365-POCLOUD.html ↗
catalogue entry · from NASA CMR
Topics
- Stated by source
- Salinity · SMAP L-Band Radiometer · Soil Moisture Active and Passive Observatory
- From keywords
- Astronomy & Astrophysics · Earth & Environmental Science · Ocean & Atmospheric Science · Physics
- Inferred from text
- Image 75% · Satellite remote sensing 65%
Provenance · 2 source records, 19 field assertions
| Source | Key | Last seen | Raw |
|---|---|---|---|
| NASA Earthdata CMR | C2832226365-POCLOUD | 7 d ago | JSON v1 |
| NASA Data Portal | 024e0e34-d8df-44c0-a9dc-9a5dd6efd34b | 4 d ago | JSON v1 |
| Field | Assertion | Extractor | Evidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| access_level | source · NASA CMR | connector:nasa_cmr@1.0.0 | |
| concepts[field].local:field:astronomy | mapping · data nasa gov | connector:data_nasa_gov@1.0.0 | |
| concepts[field].local:field:earth-environmental | mapping · data nasa gov | connector:data_nasa_gov@1.0.0 | |
| concepts[field].local:field:ocean-atmospheric | mapping · data nasa gov | connector:data_nasa_gov@1.0.0 | |
| concepts[field].local:field:physics | mapping · data nasa gov | connector:data_nasa_gov@1.0.0 | |
| concepts[instrument].gcmd_instrument:smap-l-band-radiometer | source · NASA CMR | connector:nasa_cmr@1.0.0 | |
| concepts[measured_variable].gcmd:earth-science/oceans/salinity-density/salinity | source · NASA CMR | connector:nasa_cmr@1.0.0 | |
| concepts[modality].local:modality:image | enrichment · NASA CMR | keyword-concept-rules@1.0.0 | title+description (75%) |
| concepts[modality].local:modality:remote-sensing | enrichment · NASA CMR | keyword-concept-rules@1.0.0 | title+description (65%) |
| concepts[platform].gcmd_platform:smap | source · NASA CMR | connector:nasa_cmr@1.0.0 | |
| created_date | source · NASA CMR | connector:nasa_cmr@1.0.0 | |
| description | source · NASA CMR | connector:nasa_cmr@1.0.0 | /umm/Abstract |
| license_text | source · data nasa gov | connector:data_nasa_gov@1.0.0 | |
| publication_date | source · NASA CMR | connector:nasa_cmr@1.0.0 | |
| spatial | source · NASA CMR | connector:nasa_cmr@1.0.0 | /umm/SpatialExtent |
| temporal | source · NASA CMR | connector:nasa_cmr@1.0.0 | /umm/TemporalExtents |
| title | source · NASA CMR | connector:nasa_cmr@1.0.0 | /umm/EntryTitle |
| updated_date | source · NASA CMR | connector:nasa_cmr@1.0.0 | |
| version_label | source · NASA CMR | connector:nasa_cmr@1.0.0 |