MARINE OBSERVATION SOURCE · S034
NASA PO.DAAC
Discover marine observations available through NASA PO.DAAC, including parameters, platforms, spatial and temporal coverage, metadata, and access methods.
- Operator
- NASA JPL / EOSDIS
- Role
- Satellite physical-ocean archive
- Platforms
- Earth-observing satellites
- Observed variables
- SSH/altimetry; SST; sea-surface salinity; winds; waves; currents/topography; gravity; SWOT/CYGNSS and related physical-ocean products
- Spatial coverage
- Global
- Period
- Mission/product dependent
- Depth coverage
- Mostly surface; mission/product dependent
- QC and data mode
- Product-specific science/operational QC
- Access method
- Use CMR/Earthdata Search to discover collection/granules, then OPeNDAP/direct S3/download links
- Indexed download targets
- 5
Canonical parameters
- Sea-level anomaly
sea_level_anomaly - Sea-surface height
sea_surface_height - Sea-surface salinity
sea_surface_salinity - Significant wave height
significant_wave_height - Wind speed
wind_speed
Discovery and access
For an existence app, index CMR granule metadata instead of every satellite pixel; fetch pixel data only on drill-down.