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Description

This data set consists of weekly gridded Level-3 products of Aquarius L-band radiometer Sea Surface Salinity (SSS) 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 Sea Surface Salinity utilizes Version 4 of the Level-2 Aquarius SSS as input data.

Product Summary

Platforms
SAC-D
Instruments
AQUARIUS_RADIOMETER
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
C2791494051-NSIDC_CPRD
Data State
COMPLETE
Number of Files/Granules
394
Processing Level
3
Published
Science Keywords
Ice Fraction ,
Salinity

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 Sea Surface Salinity, Version 5 [Dataset]. NASA National Snow and Ice Data Center Distributed Active Archive Center. https://doi.org/10.5067/AQUARIUS/AQ3_SSS.005 Date Accessed: 2026-10-05

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