The Physical Oceanography Distributed Active Archive Center (PO.DAAC) announced the availability of the JPL SMAP Level 2B Near Real-Time CAP Sea Surface Salinity V5.0 Validated Dataset (two-hour latency). This is the principal investigator-produced JPL SMAP-SSS V5.0, level 2B NRT CAP, validated sea surface salinity (SSS) and extreme winds orbital/swath product from the NASA Soil Moisture Active Passive (SMAP) observatory, available in near real-time with a latency of about two hours. It is based on the Combined Active-Passive (CAP) retrieval algorithm developed at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL) originally in the context of Aquarius/SAC-D and now extended to SMAP. The existing near real-time dataset JPL SMAP Level 2B Near Real-time CAP Sea Surface Salinity V5.0 Validated Dataset with six-hour latency is also available for download.
The dataset is described, discoverable, and accessible in the NASA Earthdata Cloud (AWS-West) and the Earthdata catalog; download the associated technical documentation. We also encourage users to visit the PO.DAAC Cloud Cookbook for detailed information about how to access the data from NASA Earthdata Cloud.
Download Data Using the PODAAC Data Subscriber:
- Source code: https://github.com/podaac/data-subscriber
- Example code: podaac-data-subscriber -c SMAP_JPL_L2B_NRT2_SSS_CAP_V5 -d ./data/SMAP_JPL_L2B_NRT2_SSS_CAP_V5 --start-date 2015-04-01T00:44:02Z
Citation
JPL. 2023. JPL CAP SMAP Sea Surface Salinity Products. Ver. 5.0. PO.DAAC, CA, USA. Dataset accessed [YYYY-MM-DD] at https://doi.org/10.5067/SMP50-2N2CS
Please email the PO.DAAC User Services Team with any questions, or visit PO.DAAC on Earthdata Forum.