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Description

This daily Level-2B swath data set includes Sea Surface Temperature (SST), Near-Surface Wind Speed, Columnar Water Vapor, and Cloud liquid Water data arrays, and was used as input to generate the following daily, weekly, and monthly Level-3 gridded ocean products; AE_DyOcn, AE_WkOcn, and AE_MoOcn.

Version Description

See <a href="https://nsidc.org/data/amsre/version-history">https://nsidc.org/data/amsre/version-history</a>

Product Summary

Platforms
Aqua
Instruments
AMSR-E
Spatial Extent

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

Geographic Region
GLOBAL OCEAN
Coordinate System
CARTESIAN
Granule Spatial Representation
ORBIT
Temporal Extent
2002-06-19 to 2011-10-03
Concept ID
C3363039849-NSIDC_CPRD
Data State
COMPLETE
Number of Files/Granules
97603
Processing Level
2B
Published
Science Keywords
Cloud Liquid Water/Ice ,
Cloud Precipitable Water ,
Sea Surface Temperature ,
Surface Winds ,
Water Temperature ,
Water Vapor Indices

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 L2B Global Swath Ocean Products derived from Wentz Algorithm, Version 2 [Data set]. NASA National Snow and Ice Data Center Distributed Active Archive Center. https://doi.org/10.5067/AMSR-E/AE_OCEAN.002 Date Accessed: 2026-01-11

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