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    • ECCO Sea Surface Height - Monthly Mean 0.5 Degree (Version 4 Release 4)

    Metadata Updated: December 6, 2023

    This dataset contains monthly-averaged dynamic sea surface height interpolated to a regular 0.5-degree grid from the ECCO Version 4 revision 4 (V4r4) ocean and sea-ice state estimate. Estimating the Circulation and Climate of the Ocean (ECCO) ocean and sea-ice state estimates are dynamically and kinematically-consistent reconstructions of the three-dimensional, time-evolving ocean, sea-ice, and surface atmospheric states. ECCO V4r4 is a free-running solution of the 1-degree global configuration of the MIT general circulation model (MITgcm) that has been fit to observations in a least-squares sense. Observational data constraints used in V4r4 include sea surface height (SSH) from satellite altimeters [ERS-1/2, TOPEX/Poseidon, GFO, ENVISAT, Jason-1,2,3, CryoSat-2, and SARAL/AltiKa]; sea surface temperature (SST) from satellite radiometers [AVHRR], sea surface salinity (SSS) from the Aquarius satellite radiometer/scatterometer, ocean bottom pressure (OBP) from the GRACE satellite gravimeter; sea ice concentration from satellite radiometers [SSM/I and SSMIS], and in-situ ocean temperature and salinity measured with conductivity-temperature-depth (CTD) sensors and expendable bathythermographs (XBTs) from several programs [e.g., WOCE, GO-SHIP, Argo, and others] and platforms [e.g.,research vessels, gliders, moorings, ice-tethered profilers, and instrumented pinnipeds]. V4r4 covers the period 1992-01-01T12:00:00 to 2018-01-01T00:00:00.

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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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    https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.3765928

    Dates

    Metadata Created Date December 1, 2022
    Metadata Updated Date December 6, 2023

    Metadata Source

    Harvested from NASA Data.json

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    Additional Metadata

    Resource Type Dataset
    Metadata Created Date December 1, 2022
    Metadata Updated Date December 6, 2023
    Publisher NASA/JPL/PODAAC
    Maintainer
    Identifier C1990404799-POCLOUD
    Data First Published 2021-01-01
    Language en-US
    Data Last Modified 2017-12-31
    Category ECCO, geospatial
    Public Access Level public
    Bureau Code 026:00
    Metadata Context https://project-open-data.cio.gov/v1.1/schema/catalog.jsonld
    Metadata Catalog ID https://data.nasa.gov/data.json
    Schema Version https://project-open-data.cio.gov/v1.1/schema
    Catalog Describedby https://project-open-data.cio.gov/v1.1/schema/catalog.json
    Citation ECCO Consortium, Fukumori, I., Wang, O., Fenty, I., Forget, G., Heimbach, P., & Ponte, R. M.. 2021-04-19. ECCO Sea Surface Height - Monthly Mean 0.5 Degree (Version 4 Release 4). Version V4r4. PO.DAAC. Archived by National Aeronautics and Space Administration, U.S. Government, PO.DAAC. https://doi.org/10.5067/ECG5M-SSH44. ECCO; ECCO Consortium, Fukumori, I., Wang, O., Fenty, I., Forget, G., Heimbach, P., & Ponte, R. M.; 2020; ECCO Sea Surface Height - Monthly Mean 0.5 Degree (Version 4 Release 4); 10.5067/ECG5M-SSH44; https://podaac.jpl.nasa.gov/ECCO.
    Creator ECCO Consortium, Fukumori, I., Wang, O., Fenty, I., Forget, G., Heimbach, P., & Ponte, R. M.
    Graphic Preview Description Thumbnail image for Website
    Graphic Preview File https://podaac.jpl.nasa.gov/Podaac/thumbnails/ECCO_L4_SSH_05DEG_MONTHLY_V4R4.jpg
    Harvest Object Id 75b35355-f23e-4052-8459-f44138c30af4
    Harvest Source Id 58f92550-7a01-4f00-b1b2-8dc953bd598f
    Harvest Source Title NASA Data.json
    Homepage URL https://doi.org/10.5067/ECG5M-SSH44
    Metadata Type geospatial
    Old Spatial -180.0 -90.0 180.0 90.0
    Program Code 026:001
    Related Documents https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.3765928
    Release Place PO.DAAC
    Source Datajson Identifier True
    Source Hash 4c72f638a7dc91cd54a553325b2ddac4651b0b3831723c68b8ca067411412c9f
    Source Schema Version 1.1
    Spatial
    Temporal 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z/2018-01-01T00:00:00Z

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