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Description

The data set consists of weekly polar-gridded Level-3 products of Aquarius L-band Normalized Radar Cross Section (NRCS) retrievals from the Aquarius/Satélite de Aplicaciones Científicas (SAC-D) mission, developed collaboratively between the U.S. National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) and Argentina's space agency, Comisión Nacional de Actividades Espaciales (CONAE).

Version Description

Version 5 of Aquarius L3 Weekly Polar-Gridded Normalized Radar Cross Section utilizes Version 4 of the Aquarius Level-2 NRCS as input data.

Product Summary

Platforms
SAC-D
Instruments
AQUARIUS_SCATTEROMETER
Spatial Extent

N: -50 S: -79 E: 180 W: -180

,

N: 87.4 S: 50 E: 180 W: -180

Spatial Resolution
36 Kilometers x 36 Kilometers
Spatial Reference System(s)
Multiple EPSG codes (see User Guide)
Location
ANTARCTICA ,
ARCTIC
Coordinate System
CARTESIAN
Granule Spatial Representation
CARTESIAN
Temporal Extent
2011-08-25 to 2015-06-04
Concept ID
C2786542190-NSIDC_CPRD
Data State
COMPLETE
Number of Files/Granules
1181
Processing Level
3
Published
Science Keywords
Ice Fraction ,
Radar Cross-Section

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

Brucker, L., Dinnat, E., & Koenig, L. (2015). Aquarius L3 Weekly Polar-Gridded Normalized Radar Cross Section, Version 5 [Dataset]. NASA National Snow and Ice Data Center Distributed Active Archive Center. https://doi.org/10.5067/AQUARIUS/AQ3_NRCS.005 Date Accessed: 2026-08-18

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