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    • SWOT Level 2 Radiometer Brightness Temperatures and Troposphere Interim Data Product, Version 2.0

    Metadata Updated: April 10, 2025

    The SWOT Level 2 Radiometer Brightness Temperatures and Troposphere Interim Geophysical Data Record (IGDR) Version 1.0 dataset produced by the Surface Water and Ocean Topography (SWOT) mission provides atmospheric water vapor and liquid water content from the Advanced Microwave Radiometer (AMR), a Jason-class radiometer that measures sea surface brightness temperatures at three microwave frequencies (18.7, 23.8 and 34 GHz). Brightness temperatures are processed to estimate the wet troposphere content, atmospheric attenuation to backscatter, cloud liquid water, water vapor content, and wind speed coincident with each range measurement from the nadir altimeter and applied to correct for altimeter range delays caused by atmospheric effects. 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 interim radiometer dataset consists of discrete measurements along two tracks located approximately 30-km to the left and right of the satellite nadir. The data were processed using the Medium-accuracy (preliminary) Orbit Ephemeris (MOE) with preliminary calibrations applied. They are distributed as one file per half-orbit in netCDF4 file format with a nominal latency of < 1.5 days.

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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 November 29, 2023
    Metadata Updated Date April 10, 2025

    Metadata Source

    Harvested from NASA Data.json

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    Additional Metadata

    Resource Type Dataset
    Metadata Created Date November 29, 2023
    Metadata Updated Date April 10, 2025
    Publisher NASA/JPL/PODAAC
    Maintainer
    Identifier C2799438351-POCLOUD
    Data First Published 2022-06-28
    Language en-US
    Data Last Modified 2025-03-31
    Category SWOT, geospatial
    Public Access Level public
    Bureau Code 026:00
    Metadata Context https://project-open-data.cio.gov/v1.1/schema/catalog.jsonld
    Schema Version https://project-open-data.cio.gov/v1.1/schema
    Catalog Describedby https://project-open-data.cio.gov/v1.1/schema/catalog.json
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    Harvest Source Id 58f92550-7a01-4f00-b1b2-8dc953bd598f
    Harvest Source Title NASA Data.json
    Homepage URL https://doi.org/10.5067/SWOT-RAD-IGDR-1.0
    Metadata Type geospatial
    Old Spatial -180.0 -77.6 180.0 77.6
    Program Code 026:001
    Source Datajson Identifier True
    Source Hash 98cae1ddfd268e48ec59b947e538b267e66a6a40b1adf2d7e2247aca8e103758
    Source Schema Version 1.1
    Spatial
    Temporal 2022-12-16T00:00:00Z/2023-11-27T00:00:00Z

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