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accessions_id: 8700123
Title: ALTIMETER - CROSSOVER DIFFERENCES and Other Data from SATELLITE From World-Wide Distribution from 19861212 to 19870115 (Accession No. - 8700123)
Abstract: This accession contains a listing of all the GEOSAT data. GEOSAT is a
Geodetic Satellite carrying a radar altimeter which provides profiles of
sea level. Parameters include: time, orbit, latitude/longitude, and sea
surface height. These data were submitted by the U.S. Navy via National
Oceanic Service. Corrections to the data include: tides, dry and wet
troposphere, ionosphere, height bias, and spacecraft orientation. These
are exact repeat missions (ERM) with a repeat period of 17 days. The
data specifics can be found under: dnodc*trnstat.audit/ geosat. The
following are the accession and reference numbers for all ERM GEOSAT
missions: 9000022, L00442, 10/31/89-12/31/89, ERM 65-68; 8900276,
L00423, 08/24/89-09/27/89, ERM 61-62; 8900253, L00418,
07/21/89-08/24/89, ERM 59-60; 8900229, L00408, 06/17/89-07/20/89, ERM
57-58; 8900208, L00406, 05/14/89-06/16/89, ERM 55-56; 8900163, L00402,
04/10/89-05/13/89, ERM 53-54; 8900145, L00401, 03/07/89-04/09/89, ERM
51-52.

Please note the data was offline when this abstract was written on Oct
22, 2004. Before uploading the accuracy of the abstract must be checked
against the data on line.
Date received: 19870408
Start date: 19861212
End date: 19870115
Seanames: World-Wide Distribution
West boundary:
East boundary:
North boundary:
South boundary:
Observation types: time series
Instrument types: satellite sensor - general
Datatypes: ALTIMETRY - CROSSOVER DIFFERENCES, ALTIMETRY - SEA SURFACE HEIGHT, ANALYSES - ANNUAL SUMMARIES, ANALYSES - MONTHLY SUMMARIES, ANALYSES - SEASONAL SUMMARIES
Submitter:
Submitting institution: US DOC; NOAA; National Ocean Service - Rockville, MD
Collecting institutions: US DOC; NOAA; National Ocean Service - Rockville, MD
Contributing projects: UNKNOWN - DO NOT USE
Platforms: SATELLITE (326S)
Number of observations:
Supplementary information: Note: Metadata for this accession were extracted from a legacy database
maintained by the U.S. National Oceanographic Data Center (NODC). The
design of the database did not exactly reflect the FGDC Content
Standard for Digital Geospatial Metadata (CSDGM).

Principal Investigator (PI) and organization contact information
accurately represents all available information from the legacy database
at the time that this description was created. However, proper
attribution of a PI to a specific institution or the role (submitting or
collecting) taken by an institution may not be correct due to inexact
mapping between fields in the legacy database and the CSDGM. Due to this
uncertainty, the contact information was initially recorded in the
Supplemental Information element of the CSDGM description.

To develop more accurate metadata, the NODC reviews metadata for all
accessions on an ongoing basis.


Points of contact for this data set include:
Contact info:
Agency: US DOC; NOAA; NATIONAL OCEAN SERVICE - ROCKVILLE
PI: N/A
Address:
address: 6001 EXECUTIVE BLVD.
city: ROCKVILLE
state: MD
postal: NOT AVAILABLE
country: UNITED STATES
Availability date: 19870408
Metadata version: 0
Keydate: 2003-10-24 17:37:38+00
Editdate: 2003-10-24 18:25:12+00