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CATDS-PDC L3OS 3P separated - Average 10 days & monthly salinity field product from SMOS satellite (separated orbits)

This product contains average 10 days & monthly salinity field based on L2P products, ascending and descending orbits being processed separately.

** This product is no longer available, see below **

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Date (Publication)
2017-05-24
Date
Identifier
CATDS-PDC_L3OS_3P_separated
Identifier
DOI:10.12770/4a6fd09f-6266-41e1-8da6-056c0828a1ba
Credit
CATDS (CNES, IFREMER, LOCEAN)
Author
  CATDS
Principal investigator
  LOCEAN - Jacqueline Boutin
Publisher
  CATDS (CNES, IFREMER, LOCEAN)
Thèmes Sextant
  • /Imagery/Satellite Imagery
GEMET - INSPIRE themes, version 1.0
  • Orthoimagery
Theme
  • SMOS
  • CATDS
  • CPDC
  • L3OS
  • Ocean Salinity
  • 3P
  • Ocean Product
Use limitation
Creative Commons license to apply : Attribution (BY) : http://creativecommons.org/licenses/?lang=en
Access constraints
License
Use constraints
License
Spatial representation type
grid Grid
Denominator
1
Metadata language
English
Character set
utf8 UTF8
Topic category
  • Geoscientific information
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Begin date
2010-01-12
Reference system identifier
EPSG / WGS 84 / NSIDC EASE-Grid 2.0 Global (EPSG:6933) / 8.6
Number of dimensions
3
Dimension name
Column
Dimension size
1388
Dimension name
Vertical
Dimension size
584
Dimension name
Sample
Dimension size
14
Cell geometry
Area
Transformation parameter availability
No
Distribution format
  • NetCDF ( netcdf 3 with 64 bit offset option )

OnLine resource
ATBD L3OS ( WWW:LINK )

Algorithm Theoretical Basis Document L3OS

OnLine resource
Pros/cons table ( WWW:LINK )
OnLine resource
CATDS Sipad ( WWW:LINK )

CATDS Sipad - Web-based interactive tool which allows subsettings and temporal agregation.

OnLine resource
CATDS Web portal ( WWW:LINK )

CATDS Web portal

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DOI of the product ( DOI )

DOI of the product

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Dataset
Statement

This product is no longer available. Instead, we recommend to use the product CATDS-PDC L3OS 3Q mixed - Debiased average 10 days & monthly salinity field product from SMOS satellite, mixed orbits (https://doi.org/10.12770/0f02fc28-cb86-4c44-89f3-ee7df6177e7b). However, if the L3OS 3Q mixed product doesn't fit your need, and you really need access to the L3OS 3P separated product, please send us a message with the appropriate justification at support@catds.fr.

The base products, for all the CATDS-PDC (Centre Aval de Traitement des Données SMOS - Production & Dissemination Center) processing chains, are the SMOS L1B products from ESA (European Space Agency).

From these, brightness temperatures at various incidence angles are reconstructed. The Sea Surface Salinity (SSS) are retrieved from multi-angular brightness temperatures through a maximum likehood Bayesian approach in which measured Tb and Tb simulated using a forward direct model are compared (see Zine et al. 2008 for a general description of the retrieval method, and pro_con table for a summary of the similarities/differences with respect to ESA level 2 ocean salinity processing).

The L3OS 3P mixed product contains average 10 days & monthly salinity field based on L2P products, at 4 spatial resolutions (25km, 50km, 100km, 200km), ascending and descending orbits being processed separately.

Products from reprocessing RE05 are available for the period 01/2010 - 03/2017. Products from operational (OPER) processing are available since 04/2017. Reprocessed products and operational products are derived using the same algorithm and configuration, hence ensuring the temporal continuity.

Note that Dual Polarisation (DP) configuration was used only during the commissionning phase (CP ; 01/2010 - 05/2010), alternately to Full Polarisation (FP) configuration.In order to ensure similar number of retrievals and errors on SSS maps during CP and after CP, DP and FP maps need to be averaged.

Note that links are only provided for the 25km spatial resolutions products. Other resolutions can be accessed by changing the product name (see below)

File naming :

SM_clas_MIR_CSp3rx_startdate_enddate_vvv_ccc_7

- clas : File class (OPER : operational mode, REXX : reprocessing xx)

- p : F for full polarization, D for dual polarization

- r : A for 25km, B for 50km, C for 100km, D for 200km

- x : A for ascending orbit, D for descending orbit

- startdate : sensing start date/time of the data (format yyyymmddThhmiss)

- enddate : sensing end date/time of the data (format yyyymmddThhmiss)

- vvv : version number of the processor generating the product

- ccc : file counter

File format :

In each archive file (.tgz extension), there are two files

- A Header file (.HDR), which is a text file, in XML Earth Explorer Header format

- A Data file (.DBL.nc), which is a netcdf file, format variant 2 (netcdf 3 with 64 bits offset option)

Reference :

Zine, S., J. Boutin, J. Font, N. Reul, P. Waldteufel, C. Gabarró, J. Tenerelli, F. Petitcolin, J. L. Vergely, M. Talone, and S. Delwart (2008), Overview of the SMOS sea surface salinity prototype processor, IEEE T. Geosci. Remote Sensing, 46, 621-645.

File identifier
4a6fd09f-6266-41e1-8da6-056c0828a1ba XML
Metadata language
English
Character set
UTF8
Hierarchy level
Dataset
Date stamp
2025-05-15T22:15:59.39148Z
Metadata standard name
ISO 19115-3 - SEXTANT
Metadata standard version
1.0
Point of contact
  IFREMER - Tarot Stephane
Centre Bretagne - ZI de la Pointe du Diable - CS 10070 - 29280 Plouzané , Brest , France
02 98 22 40 55
 
 

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Keywords

3P CATDS CPDC L3OS Ocean Product Ocean Salinity SMOS
GEMET - INSPIRE themes, version 1.0
Orthoimagery
Thèmes Sextant
/Imagery/Satellite Imagery

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