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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comparison image of the Central California Aquifer depleting over a year

Tracking Groundwater Changes Around the World Using Satellite Gravity

Learn how NASA’s Gravity Recovery and Climate Experiment satellite mission measures groundwater changes from space.

Data in Action

March 26, 2015

sea surface temperature showing warming temperatures along the southern California coast

Unusual Summertime Warming Off the California Coast

Learn about intensified coastal warming along central-to-southern California in 2014 using satellite sea surface temperature imagery.

Data in Action

Sept. 4, 2014

RapidScat wind speed over the western hemisphere

NASA's RapidScat to Unveil Hidden Cycles of Sea Winds

Learn how NASA's RapidScat observes daily cycles of wind created by solar heat.

Data in Action

July 17, 2014

How Can Ocean Currents Help With Finding a Missing Plane?

NASA's OSCAR data were used to analyze ocean currents to track debris fields for Malaysian Airlines flight 370.

Data in Action

April 4, 2014

OSTM/JASON ocean surface topography data over the Pacific Ocean

Waves and Satellites: Chasing the big ones

NASA satellites and instruments provide global wave height observations and ocean vector winds on a daily basis.

Data in Action

Jan. 14, 2014

Aquarius flood data over the southeastern United States

Aquarius Detects Effects of an Extreme Mississippi River Flooding Event

Aquarius detected the effects of an extreme Mississippi river flooding event into the Gulf of America.

Data in Action

Nov. 11, 2013

SWOT data over the Santa Barbara channel

Sampling the Submesoscale Ocean in the Santa Barbara Channel

NASA’s SWOT satellite will measure sea level height variations on spatial scales down to a few kilometers.

Data in Action

Aug. 17, 2013

radar altimetry data of ocean currents in the Pacific

20 Years of Radar Altimetry

TOPEX/Poseidon provided more than 13 years of data, while two follow-on missions—Jason-1 and Jason-2—have extended the time series of data to more than 20 years.

Data in Action

Dec. 12, 2012

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Tracking Groundwater Changes Around the World Using Satellite Gravity

Unusual Summertime Warming Off the California Coast

NASA's RapidScat to Unveil Hidden Cycles of Sea Winds

How Can Ocean Currents Help With Finding a Missing Plane?

Waves and Satellites: Chasing the big ones

Aquarius Detects Effects of an Extreme Mississippi River Flooding Event

Sampling the Submesoscale Ocean in the Santa Barbara Channel

20 Years of Radar Altimetry

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