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SWOT Level 2 Nadir Altimeter Geophysical Data Record with Waveforms - SGDR

Metadata Updated: April 10, 2025

The SWOT Level 2 Nadir Altimeter Geophysical Data Record (GDR) with Waveforms dataset produced by the Surface Water and Ocean Topography (SWOT) mission provides sea surface height, significant wave height and wind speed measurements from the Poseidon-3C nadir altimeter, a Jason-class dual frequency (Ku/C) altimeter. SWOT is a joint mission between NASA and CNES that launched on December 16, 2022. It aims to measure ocean surface topography with unprecedented resolution and accuracy, as well as map inland water bodies globally. The GDR dataset consists of discrete measurements for each half orbit along the ground track with sampling resolutions of approximately 6-km and 300-m at 1Hz and 20Hz, respectively. The data were processed using restituted auxiliary data and the Precise Orbit Ephemeris (POE). The data are available with latency of < 90 days and distributed in netCDF-4 file format. This collection is a sub-collection of its parent: https://podaac.jpl.nasa.gov/dataset/SWOT_L2_NALT_GDR_2.0

Access & Use Information

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 March 28, 2024
Metadata Updated Date April 10, 2025

Metadata Source

Harvested from NASA Data.json

Additional Metadata

Resource Type Dataset
Metadata Created Date March 28, 2024
Metadata Updated Date April 10, 2025
Publisher NASA/JPL/PODAAC
Maintainer
Identifier C2799465518-POCLOUD
Data First Published 2022-06-28
Language en-US
Data Last Modified 2025-03-31
Category SWOT, geospatial
Public Access Level public
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Harvest Source Title NASA Data.json
Homepage URL https://doi.org/10.5067/SWOT-NALT-GDR-2.0
Metadata Type geospatial
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Program Code 026:001
Source Datajson Identifier True
Source Hash debddafe75cb7e984a870b30645e42be89c3a88020683232d20e615df8b3abd6
Source Schema Version 1.1
Spatial
Temporal 2022-12-16T00:00:00Z/2024-03-27T00:00:00Z

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