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2005 PO.DAAC Announcements
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01 Sept 2005: GHRSST Near Real Time SST Data
Now Available

The Physical Oceanography Distributed Active Archive Center would like to announce the availability of near real-time SST data from the Global Ocean Data Assimilation Experiment (GODAE) High Resolution Sea Surface Temperature Pilot Project (GHRSST-PP). Data are available in netCDF format in near real-time from 6 different sensors: AMSR-E, TMI, AVHRR-16, AVHRR-17, the European AATSR and the European SEVIRI instrument. Coverage currently includes the Atlantic, along with the Southeast Pacific Ocean.

Additional regions and sensors will be added as the data is made available to us. Our goal is global coverage.

Data are available through the ftp site: ftp://podaac.jpl.nasa.gov/pub/GHRSST/

Documentation and information are accessible through: http://ghrsst.jpl.nasa.gov

25 July 2005: AGU Ocean Science Special Session

TAs one of the Conveners of this Special Ocean Science Session is the PO.DAAC Task Scientist, this announcement is being sent as a courtesy via the PO.DAAC email list.

Dear Ocean Colleagues,

Aloha! We cordially encourage you to submit an abstract for our special session, "(OS037) The Development and Application of Ocean Climate Data Records from Space", to be held during the upcoming TOS/ASLO/AGU 2006 Ocean Sciences Meeting, being held 20-24 February 2006 in Honolulu, Hawaii.

This session seeks to bring together both those developing space-based ocean "climate data records" and those using them in scientific, educational, and operational applications. If you are involved with the creation of consistent, long-term ocean records involving a satellite component or in their use, then this session is for you! Abstracts must be submitted by October 13 (postal mail deadline) or October 20 (electronic submission deadline) at http://www.agu.org/meetings/os06/.

Please forward this email to anyone you think might be interested, and please don't hesitate to send us your questions. The full abstract of the session and our contact information is shown below. We look forward to seeing you on the beautiful island of O'ahu!

Mahalo nui loa,

Ken Casey
(NOAA National Oceanographic Data Center)

Jorge Vazquez
(JPL/Caltech Physical Oceanography DAAC)

Craig Donlon
(National Centre for Ocean Forecasting, UK Met Office)

Special Session Number: OS037

Title: The Development and Application of Ocean Climate Data Records from Space

Session Description:
With over 20 years of space-based observations of the world's oceans available, a need to develop climate data records and an opportunity to achieve new scientific understandings through their application has emerged. While definitions of a "climate data record" vary to some degree, they tend to share several characteristics including being long-term, consistently processed, highly accurate, and produced with associated uncertainties using systems that combine sustained, ongoing capacity with the latest community consensus science knowledge and best practices. The application of these remotely-sensed ocean climate data records, which often contain a significant in situ component, spans an incredible range of scientific fields. These areas of application include climate change monitoring and numerical prediction, coral bleaching and disease, the oceans and human disease outbreaks, ocean circulation, and sea level change, among many others. Educational and operational applications also benefit significantly through the ocean climate data record's ability to provide case studies and climatological context for improved interpretation of real-time information. This session brings together both those generating these satellite-based records, including but not limited to sea surface temperature, sea surface topography, ocean color, marine winds, and sea ice, and those advancing the state of knowledge through their application.

Conveners:

Kenneth S Casey
NOAA National Oceanographic Data Center
1315 East West Highway
Silver Spring, MD, USA 20910
301-713-3272 x133
Kenneth.Casey@noaa.gov

Jorge Vazquez
JPL/Caltech PO.DAAC
4800 Oak Grove Dr.
Pasadena, CA, USA 91109
818-354-6980
jv@pacific.jpl.nasa.gov

Craig Donlon
National Centre for Ocean Forecasting, Hadley Centre, UK Met Office
Fitzroy Road
Exeter, GBR EX1 3PB
+44 (0)1392 886622
craig.donlon@metoffice.gov.uk

22 Sept 2005: AVHRR Pathfinder Version 4 & Version 4.1 Data Retirement

The JPL PO.DAAC plans to retire the AVHRR Pathfinder Version 4 & 4.1 data. The data, documentation and read software will be archived and removed from our on-line tools in early March 2005. The Version 4 & 4.1 data products include:

  • AVHRR Oceans Pathfinder global equal-angle all SST v4 (NOAA, NASA)
    PO.DAAC Product #090
  • AVHRR Oceans Pathfinder global equal-angle best SST v4 (NOAA, NASA)
    PO.DAAC Product #091
  • AVHRR Oceans Pathfinder global equal-angle all SST v4.1 (NOAA, NASA)
    PO.DAAC Product #094
  • AVHRR Oceans Pathfinder global equal-angle best SST v4.1 (NOAA, NASA)
    PO.DAAC Product #095
  • AVHRR Oceans Pathfinder global equal-angle all SST interim v4.1 (NOAA/NASA)
    PO.DAAC Product #101
  • AVHRR Oceans Pathfinder global equal-angle best SST interim v4.1 (NOAA/NASA)
    PO.DAAC Product #102

Please note that the JPL PO.DAAC released Version 5 AVHRR Pathfinder SST data in collaboration with the NOAA National Oceanographic Data Center (NODC) and the University of Miami’s Rosenstiel School of Marine and Atmospheric Sciences in June 2004.

Version 4 and 4.1 best SST data were made available with PO.DAAC Products #091, #095 and #102. Version 5 best SST field doesn’t exist in an explicit file but can be extracted. For details on how to extract the best SST field, see the related FAQ available from our FAQ site.
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