Proposed Recipes for SMAP Sea Surface Salinity

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Dataset Name

JPL SMAP Level 3 CAP Sea Surface Salinity Standard Mapped Image 8-Day Running Mean V5.0 Validated Dataset

Dataset URL

https://podaac.jpl.nasa.gov/dataset/SMAP_JPL_L3_SSS_CAP_8DAY-RUNNINGMEAN_V5

Description

Sea surface salinity varies throughout the ocean, and this variability can be related to the distribution of phytoplankton communties.

License

Unknown

Data Format

NetCDF

Data Format (other)

No response

Access protocol

S3

Source File Organization

This is the PI-produced JPL SMAP-SSS V5.0 CAP, 8-day running mean, level 3 mapped, sea surface salinity (SSS) product from the NASA Soil Moisture Active Passive (SMAP) observatory. L3 products are global in extent and gridded at 0.25degree x 0.25degree with an approximate spatial resolution of 60km.

Example URLs

https://cmr.earthdata.nasa.gov/virtual-directory/collections/C2208422957-POCLOUD

Authorization

NASA Earthdata Login

Transformation / Processing

Files should be concatenated along the time dimension, and spatially interpolated to match the MUR SST data.

Target Format

Zarr

Comments

Sea surface salinity from SMAP will be one of four parameters concatenated for use a input to a diatom biomass prediction algorithm.