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Journal for accession number: 0118278
Created on:                    2014-05-05 22:01:52 UTC
By:                            Sheri Phillips,OC1,SSMC3 4659,7133280 x127

Source: This accession contains the data descriptions and access links for the 
data from the Jason-3 spacecraft. The accession is a collection-level record 
for these Jason-3 data held at the NODC:

GDRs: https://archive.nodc.noaa.gov/cgi-bin/AMS/prod/accession/details/122595

Ancillary data: https://archive.nodc.noaa.gov/cgi-bin/AMS/prod/accession/details/122596

Auxiliary data: https://archive.nodc.noaa.gov/cgi-bin/AMS/prod/accession/details/122597

Orbital Information: https://archive.nodc.noaa.gov/cgi-bin/AMS/prod/accession/details/122598

Telemetry: https://archive.nodc.noaa.gov/cgi-bin/AMS/prod/accession/details/122599

Quality reports:  https://archive.nodc.noaa.gov/cgi-bin/AMS/prod/accession/details/0122600

Other data/products associated with OSTM/Jason-2 are also provided through
the NODC under separate accession numbers. They are: ancillary and auxiliary 
data files used to generate Level-2 products, quality reports from the near 
real-time altimetry validation system (NRTAVS), orbit information for the Jason-2
satellite, telemetry, and the GDR data. There is a separate collection-level
record for Jason-2 data: NODC accession number 0118277.

Detailed documentation for the Jason-2 and Jason-3 missions are held in a data
documentation collection at the NODC at: 
https://archive.nodc.noaa.gov/cgi-bin/AMS/prod/accession/details/118276

Files:

about/

browse_image_j3.jpg - browse image (artist rendition of Jason-3 over the California coast)



data/0-data/

This directory contains the following data and documentation files:
 
data_URLs.html - A html file provides the URL links directing to the NOAA's CLASS data
system for downloading these datasets.


