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Aquarius Official Release Level 3 Ancillary Reynolds Sea Surface Temperature Standard Mapped Image Ascending Mission Cumulative Data V5.0

Metadata Updated: October 30, 2025

Aquarius Level 3 ancillary sea surface temperature (SST) standard mapped image data are the ancillary SST data used in the Aquarius calibration for salinity retrieval. They are simply the daily SSTs from the Reynolds National Climatic Data Center (NCDC) 0.25 degree dataset, gridded and averaged using the Aquarius processing L2-L3 processing scheme to the same 1 degree spatial resolution and daily, 7 day, monthly, seasonal, and annual time intervals as Aquarius L3 standard salinity and wind speed products. This particular data set is the mission series mean or cumulative, ascending ancillary sea surface temperature product associated with version 5.0 of the Aquarius data set.

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Public: This dataset is intended for public access and use. License: No license information was provided. If this work was prepared by an officer or employee of the United States government as part of that person's official duties it is considered a U.S. Government Work.

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Dates

Metadata Created Date April 11, 2025
Metadata Updated Date October 30, 2025

Metadata Source

Harvested from NASA Data.json

Additional Metadata

Resource Type Dataset
Metadata Created Date April 11, 2025
Metadata Updated Date October 30, 2025
Publisher Aquarius Project NASA/OBPG, Reynolds;NASA/JPL/PODAAC
Maintainer
Identifier 10.5067/AQR50-3RCAE
Data Last Modified 2025-09-10
Category Earth Science
Public Access Level public
Bureau Code 026:00
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Harvest Source Id 58f92550-7a01-4f00-b1b2-8dc953bd598f
Harvest Source Title NASA Data.json
Homepage URL https://podaac.jpl.nasa.gov/CitingPODAAC
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Program Code 026:000
Source Datajson Identifier True
Source Hash e53f524cd7df95d40669989bb067572b630edceec4f987bde0f0ed03f42d47d6
Source Schema Version 1.1
Spatial
Temporal 2011-08-25/2011-08-25

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