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Parametrized Rain Impact Model for SMAP L2 V1.0

Listed in NASA Earthdata CMR and NASA Data Portal — shown once because both records carry DOI 10.5067/prims-2rsw1

This is the PI-produced SMAP sea water salinity, level 2 v1.0 orbital/swath product from the NASA Soil Moisture Active Passive (SMAP) observatory.

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It is based on the Parameterized Rain Impact Model (PRIM) developed at the University of Central Florida (UCF) Central Florida Remote Sensing Lab (CFRSL), Orlando, FL; University of Washington (UW) Applied Physics Lab (APL), Seattle, WA. The PRIM product range extended from March 31, 2015 to September 30, 2021.

It includes data for a range of parameters: derived SMAP sea water salinity at surface, 1m depth and 5m depth, and probability of salinity stratification (PSS), rainfall rate and wind speed data. Each data file covers one 98-minute orbit (15 files per day), and corresponds to a <a href="doi.org/10.5067/SMP50-2TOCS">JPL SMAP Level 2B CAP Sea Surface Salinity V5.0</a> file which corresponds to a single orbit on a given day.

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The SMAP satellite is in 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.

On board Instruments include a highly sensitive L-band radiometer operating at 1.41GHz and an L-band 1.26GHz radar sensor providing complementary active and passive sensing capabilities. Observations are global in extent and provided at 25km swath grid with an approximate spatial resolution of 60 km.

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