PO.DAAC Learning Resources

Learning resources created by NASA’s Physical Oceanography Distributed Active Archive Center (PO.DAAC) help users find, analyze, and visualize data.

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The PO.DAAC cookbook is a repository of tutorials designed to help users learn about and experiment with datasets.

Resources include:

How-to section: bite-sized pieces of code
Tutorials: example workflows specific to PO.DAAC datasets
Advanced Cloud resources: guides, recipes, and more to help optimize cloud workflows
Tech Guide: instructions to clone the PO.DAAC repository

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Satellite Sea Surface Salinity to Monitor River Plumes Impacts

Ocean researchers are studying the data consistency between different salinity products.

Data in Action

July 27, 2021

ocean current and temperature visualization

ECCO Helps Validate New Field of Seismic Ocean Thermometry

Datasets from the Estimating the Circulation of the Ocean (ECCO) project can transform ocean temperature monitoring.

Data in Action

May 26, 2021

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Scripted Access to PO.DAAC Data in the Cloud

Learn how to use a script to access PO.DAAC data in the Earthdata Cloud.

Tutorial

May 18, 2021

Webinar Banner Image- PO.DAAC (03/24/21)

An Open Ocean of Remote Sensing and In Situ Data for Science in the Cloud

Join us to learn about NASA's archive for physical oceanography data in the context of Open Science. We'll provide you with an introduction to remote sensing and in situ products at PO.DAAC and show you how to work with these data in the cloud.

Webinar

April 22, 2021

sea surface temperature during hurricane Edouard

The 2020 Atlantic Hurricane Season: A Record Breaker

Satellite data reveals the oceanic response to the record-setting season.

Data in Action

March 25, 2021

Glaciers Melt From Below

Researchers used remote sensing to investigate how subsurface ocean temperature variations have changed glaciers over the past 30 years.

Data in Action

Jan. 20, 2021

image of phytoplankton bloom in the Baltic Sea

Globally Averaged Sea Level

Charting global mean sea level rise since 1900.

Data in Action

Nov. 19, 2020

satellite image of Hurricanes Marco and Laura

A Tale of Two Hurricanes in the Gulf of America

Explore sea surface temperature anomalies in the Gulf of America before, during, and after Tropical Cyclones Laura and Marco with NASA's MUR SST dataset.

Data in Action

Sept. 10, 2020

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Satellite Sea Surface Salinity to Monitor River Plumes Impacts

ECCO Helps Validate New Field of Seismic Ocean Thermometry

Scripted Access to PO.DAAC Data in the Cloud

An Open Ocean of Remote Sensing and In Situ Data for Science in the Cloud

The 2020 Atlantic Hurricane Season: A Record Breaker

Glaciers Melt From Below

Globally Averaged Sea Level

A Tale of Two Hurricanes in the Gulf of America

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