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Description

The Level-3 daily product (AE_DyOcn), weekly product (AE_WkOcn), and monthly product (AE_MoOcn) include SST, near-surface wind speed, columnar water vapor, and columnar cloud liquid water over oceans in a 0.25 degree by 0.25 degree grid, generated from AE_Ocean.

Version Description

See https://nsidc.org/data/amsre/version-history

Product Summary

Platforms
Aqua
Instruments
AMSR-E
Spatial Extent

N: 89.24 S: -89.24 E: 180 W: -180

Spatial Resolution
0.25 Decimal Degrees x 0.25 Decimal Degrees
Location
GLOBAL OCEAN
Coordinate System
CARTESIAN
Granule Spatial Representation
CARTESIAN
Temporal Extent
2002-06-19 to 2011-10-03
Temporal Resolution
1 Day
Concept ID
C3235709685-NSIDC_CPRD
Data State
COMPLETE
Number of Files/Granules
3365
Processing Level
3
Published
Science Keywords
Atmospheric Water Vapor ,
Cloud Liquid Water/Ice ,
Cloud Precipitable Water ,
Sea Surface Temperature ,
Surface Winds ,
Water Temperature

Citation

Citation is critically important for dataset documentation and discovery. This dataset is openly shared, without restriction, in accordance with the EOSDIS Data Use and Citation Guidance.

Copy Citation

Wentz, F., & Meissner, T. (2004). AMSR-E/Aqua Daily L3 Global Ascending/Descending .25x.25 deg Ocean Grids, Version 2 [Dataset]. NASA National Snow and Ice Data Center Distributed Active Archive Center. https://doi.org/10.5067/AMSR-E/AE_DYOCN.002 Date Accessed: 2026-08-02

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Publications Citing This Dataset

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Role of oceanic ozone deposition in explaining temporal variability in surface ozone at High Arctic sites Barten, Johannes G. M., Ganzeveld, Laurens N., Steeneveld, Gert-Jan, Krol, Maarten C. Atmospheric Water Vapor, Cloud Liquid Water/Ice, Cloud Precipitable Water, Sea Surface Temperature, Surface Winds, Water Temperature
Cloud_cci Advanced Very High Resolution Radiometer post meridiem (AVHRR-PM) dataset version 3: 35-year climatology of global cloud and radiation ... Stengel, Martin, Stapelberg, Stefan, Sus, Oliver, Finkensieper, Stephan, Wurzler, Benjamin, Philipp, Daniel, Hollmann, Rainer, Poulsen, Caroline, Christensen, Matthew, McGarragh, Gregory Atmospheric Water Vapor, Cloud Liquid Water/Ice, Cloud Precipitable Water, Sea Surface Temperature, Surface Winds, Water Temperature
Cloud Cells by Data of Satellite Measurements and Convective Energy Balance on Invasion of Cold Air into the Atmosphere over the Black Sea Iarovaia, D. A., Efimov, V. V. Atmospheric Water Vapor, Cloud Liquid Water/Ice, Cloud Precipitable Water, Sea Surface Temperature, Surface Winds, Water Temperature
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