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| NODC Accession No.: | 0044983 |
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| Title: | Ocean Surface Topography Mission (OSTM)/Jason-2: Auxiliary Files (NODC Accession 0044983) |
| Abstract: | This accession contains the data descriptions for the OSTM/Jason-2 Auxiliary data files, which is served through the NOAA/NESDIS Comprehensive Large Array-data Stewardship System (CLASS): http://www.class.noaa.gov OSTM/Jason-2 is a follow-on mission to Jason-1, which takes over and continues the TOPEX/Poseidon and Jason-1 missions. OSTM/Jason-2 involves Centre National d'Etudes Spatiales (CNES), NASA and 2 new partners: the European Organisation for the Exploitation of Meteorological Satellites (EUMETSAT) and NOAA in order to 1) ensure continuity of high quality measurements for ocean science, and 2) provide operational products for assimilation and forecasting applications. OSTM/Jason-2 was launched on 20 June 2008 and reached its nominal repetitive orbit on 4 July 2008. The start of cycle 1 occurred on 12 July 2008. These auxiliary data files are used to generate Level-2 products.They Include both static tabular data files and dynamic files which change/grow over time. Auxiliary files are produced outside of OSTM but are used in the production of Level-2 products. Filetypes in the Auxiliary data family (J2-AUX) which are produced by the European Center for Medium range Weather Forecasting (ECMWF) are restricted by ECMWF to the Jason-2 project team. For these restricted data families, users will only see listed those datatypes upon which they can search. Other data/products associated with OSTM/Jason-2 are also provided through CLASS. They are: Level-2 Geophysical Data Records (GDRs), ancillary data files used to generate Level-2 products, quality reports from the near real-time altimetry validation system (NRTAVS), orbit information of JASON-2 satellite and telemetry data. The descriptions of these data products can also be found in other accessions at NODC. |
| Submitted by: | Lillibridge, John |
| Submitting Institution: | OSDPD |
| Collecting Institutions: | CNES, EUMETSAT, OSDPD, NASA |
| Date received: | 2008-12-15 |
| Start date: | 2008-06-20 |
| End date: | 2009-07-15 |
| Availability date: | 2008-12-15 |
| West boundary: | -180 |
| East boundary: | 180 |
| North boundary: | 66 |
| South boundary: | -66 |
| Number of observations: | |
| Size in Megabytes: | |
| Datatypes: | ALTIMETER - SEA SURFACE MEASUREMENT |
| Observation types: | satellite data |
| Instrument types: | satellite sensor - altimeter |
| Sea areas: | World-Wide Distribution |
| Contributing projects: | |
| Platforms: | - JASON-2 |
| Supplementary Info: | Data users of this accession should note that the DATA in folders 01-version/ and 02-version/ is identical and can be used interchangeably. The folders differ in that 02-version/about holds Federal Geographic Data Committee (FGDC) metadata in addition to all the files originally included in the 01-version folder. |
| meta_version: | 13 |
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