The Earth Observer, November/December 1996

Three New CD-ROMs

The JPL PO.DAAC is proud to present three new CD-ROM products. They can be browsed and ordered through http://podaac.jpl.nasa.gov.

1. AVHRR Oceans Pathfinder monthly global best SST CD-ROM (JPL, Miami)--The NOAA/NASA AVHRR Oceans Pathfinder Monthly Sea Surface Temperature CD-ROM is a two-volume set containing monthly averaged sea surface temperature (SST) data and browse images derived from the NOAA Advanced Very High Resolution Radiometer (AVHRR) using the Pathfinder Version 3 algorithm. Data for both the ascending pass (daytime) and descending pass (nighttime) are available globally on equal angle grids of 4096 pixels longitude by 2048 pixels latitude, 2048 pixels longitude by 1024 pixels latitude, and 720 pixels longitude by 360 pixels latitude. These data have previously been referred to as 9-km data. These data are provided in the Hierarchical Data Format (HDF). Data for 1991 and 1992 are available now; additional CD-ROMs will be added to this collection as soon as the data become available.

2. AVHRR monthly global MCSST CD-ROM (JPL, Miami)--The AVHRR Monthly Global MCSST CD-ROM set contains monthly mean values of multichannel sea surface temperature (MCSST) data calculated from the NOAA Advanced Very High Resolution Radiometer (AVHRR). Data for both the ascending pass (daytime) and the descending pass (nighttime) are given in the Hierarchical Data Format (HDF) and have a spatial resolution of 2048 pixels/360 deg or 5.689 pix/deg. These data have previously been referred to as 18 km data. Browse images of this data are also available on the CD-ROMs. Data from 1981 to 1995 are available now. Additional CD-ROMs will be added to this collection as soon as the data become available.

3. A collection of ocean tide models on CD-ROM (U of Texas, JPL et al.)--This CD-ROM contains ten global ocean tide models which have been developed for the research community. The models were developed by the analysis of the precise measurements from the TOPEX/Poseidon altimeters, and as a result of parallel developments in numerical tidal modeling and data assimilation. The CD-ROM contains the following models:

   CSR3.0 (Eanes-Bettadpur)
   AG95 (KMS Andersen-Grenoble)
   DW95.1 (CU Desai-Wahr)
   FES95.2 (Grenoble Le Provost et al.)
   ANTHA2 (CU Kantha)
   ORI (U. Tokyo Matsumoto et al.)
   GSFC (Sanchez-Pavliz)
   RSC94 (GSFC Ray-Sanchez-Cartwright)
   TPX0.2 (OSU Egbert et al.)
   SR95.1 (Delft/GSFC Schrama-Ray)

PLEASE NOTE:

These models are of limited use outside of the research community. In shallow waters they are inaccurate, which makes them unsuitable for navigation or other practical applications. Please read the full description of this product before ordering.

JPL PO.DAAC data are free of charge. For further information contact: podaac@podaac.jpl.nasa.gov; or access URL: http://podaac.jpl.nasa.gov.