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| Title: | Ocean Surface Topography Mission (OSTM) /Jason-3: Ancillary Files, 2015- (NODC Accession 0122596) |
| Abstract: | Jason-3 is the fourth mission in U.S.-European series of satellite missions that measure the height of the ocean surface. Scheduled to launch in 2015, the mission will extend the time series of ocean surface topography measurements begun by the TOPEX/Poseidon satellite mission in 1992 and continuing through the currently operating Jason-1 (launched in 2001) and OSTM/Jason-2 (launched in 2008) missions. These measurements provide scientists with critical information about circulation patterns in the ocean and about both global and regional changes in sea level and the climate implications of a warming world. TOPEX/Poseidon and Jason-1 were cooperative missions between NASA and the French space agency, CNES. Additional partners in the Jason-2 mission included NOAA and Eumetsat. Jason-3 continues the international cooperation, with NOAA and Eumetsat leading the efforts, along with partners NASA and CNES. The primary instrument on Jason-3 is a radar altimeter. The altimeter measures sea-level variations over the global ocean with very high accuracy (as 1.3 inches or 3.3 centimeters, with a goal of achieving 1 inch or 2.5 centimeters). Ancillary data files are are mission specific files used in the production of Level-2 products. They include both static tabular data files and dynamic files which change/grow over time. Members of the Ancillary data family may be subject to access restrictions. Additional documentation for Jason-3 data is archived at the NODC at: https://archive.nodc.noaa.gov/cgi-bin/AMS/prod/accession/details/118276. The documentation includes metadata in International Standards Organization (ISO) format. |
| Date received: | 20150401 |
| Start date: | 20150401 |
| End date: | 20250101 |
| Seanames: | World-Wide Distribution |
| West boundary: | -180 |
| East boundary: | 180 |
| North boundary: | 66 |
| South boundary: | -66 |
| Observation types: | continuous, derived products, meteorological, physical, satellite data, surface measurements |
| Instrument types: | AMR, DORIS, LRA, satellite sensor - altimeter |
| Datatypes: | ALTIMETRY - SEA SURFACE HEIGHT, SEA HEIGHT, SEA SURFACE TOPOGRAPHY, WAVE DATA, WAVE DIRECTION, WAVE HEIGHT, WAVE HEIGHT - SIGNIFICANT, WIND SPEED |
| Submitter: | Lillibridge, John |
| Submitting institution: | US DOC; NOAA; NESDIS; Office of Satellite Data Processing and Distribution |
| Collecting institutions: | European Organisation for the Exploitation of Meteorological Satellites, National Centre for Space Studies, US DOC; NOAA; NESDIS; Center for Satellite Applications and Research, US National Aeronautic and Space Administration |
| Contributing projects: | |
| Platforms: | Jason-3 (pid: 12447) |
| Number of observations: | |
| Supplementary information: | |
| Availability date: | 20150501 |
| Metadata version: | 6 |
| Keydate: | 2014-10-10 19:54:18+00 |
| Editdate: | 2019-10-15 19:18:56+00 |