Creator: NSIDC_CPRD
Keywords: Soil Moisture/Water Content

Data at a Glance

Description

This data set contains Level-3 gridded annual global soil moisture estimates derived from the NASA Aquarius passive microwave radiometer on the Satélite de Aplicaciones Científicas (SAC-D).

Version Description

Version 2 of the Aquarius L3 Soil Moisture data is the first version available from NSIDC.

Product Summary

Platforms

SAC-D

Instruments

AQUARIUS_RADIOMETER ,

AQUARIUS_SCATTEROMETER

Spatial Extent

N: 90 S: -90 E: 180 W: -180

Spatial Resolution

1 Decimal Degrees x 1 Decimal Degrees

Location

GLOBAL LAND

Coordinate System

CARTESIAN

Granule Spatial Representation

CARTESIAN

Temporal Extent

2011-08-25 to 2014-01-01

Temporal Resolution

1 Year

Concept ID

C4130288093-NSIDC_CPRD

Data State

DEPRECATED

Number of Files/Granules

Processing Level

Published

2013-12-03

Science Keywords

Soil Moisture/Water Content

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Bindlish, R., & Jackson, T. (2013). Aquarius L3 Gridded 1-Degree Annual Soil Moisture, Version 2 [Dataset]. NASA National Snow and Ice Data Center Distributed Active Archive Center. https://doi.org/10.5067/AQUARIUS/AQ3_ANSM.002 Date Accessed: 2026-10-05

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Open access data in polar and cryospheric remote sensing	Pope, Allen, Rees, W., Fox, Adrian, Fleming, Andrew	2014	AMSR-E/Aqua Daily L3 6.25 km 89 GHz Brightness Temperature Polar Grids, Version 2 V002 MEaSUREs Greenland Ice Sheet Velocity Map from InSAR Data V001 AMSR-E/Aqua Daily L3 12.5 km Brightness Temperature, Sea Ice Concentration, & Snow Depth Polar Grids V002 MEaSUREs Greenland Ice Velocity: Selected Glacier Site Velocity Maps from InSAR V001 AMSR-E/Aqua Monthly L3 Global Snow Water Equivalent EASE-Grids V002 AMSR-E/Aqua Daily L3 25 km Brightness Temperature & Sea Ice Concentration Polar Grids V002 MEaSUREs Arctic Sea Ice Characterization Daily 25km EASE-Grid 2.0 V001 Near-Real-Time DMSP SSMIS Daily Polar Gridded Sea Ice Concentrations V001 MEaSUREs InSAR-Based Antarctica Ice Velocity Map V001 AMSR-E/Aqua Daily L3 Global Snow Water Equivalent EASE-Grids V002 Near-Real-Time SSM/I-SSMIS EASE-Grid Daily Global Ice Concentration and Snow Extent V004 AMSR-E/Aqua 5-Day L3 Global Snow Water Equivalent EASE-Grids V002 Aquarius L3 Gridded 1-Degree Annual Soil Moisture V002 MEaSUREs InSAR-Based Ice Velocity Maps of Central Antarctica: 1997 and 2009 V001

Aquarius L3 Gridded 1-Degree Annual Soil Moisture V002