Ocean Winds News

Articles, resources, and announcements from Ocean Winds.

This Jupyter Notebook workflow image shows an analysis-ready virtualized sea surface temperature dataset from NASA’s PO.DAAC loaded with Xarray on the left and a regional mean time series plot off the U.S. West Coast on the right.

Accelerating Science Using Virtualized Data at PO.DAAC

Join us on Aug. 21, 2025, at 2:00 p.m. EDT (-04:00 UTC) to learn how to use Python and Xarray to access virtualized, exploratIon- and analysis-ready physical oceanography datasets from NASA's PO.DAAC.

Webinar

Aug. 12, 2025

A visualization of COWVR wind speed and direction data during a bomb cyclone in November 2024.

COWVR and TEMPEST V10 Datasets Available in First Public Release

The Compact Ocean Wind Vector Radiometer (COWVR) and Temporal Experiment for Storms and Tropical Systems (TEMPEST) datasets are the first from the Space Test Program - Houston 8 (STP-H8) mission that aims to test low-cost, light-weight instruments designed for weather applications.

News

Jan. 17, 2025

This a square image of a portion of Eastern Texas. The image was taken by the TEMPO spacecraft and shows nitrogen dioxide gas levels across the region. A majority of the image is colored blue indicating lower levels of gas. The upper left corner of the image shows the city of Dallas colored in orange, red, and black indicating increasingly higher levels of gas. In the lower middle of the image is Houston, again colored in orange, red, and black indicating increasingly higher levels of gas.

NASA Identifies Activities to Address U.S. Satellite Observation Needs

Assessment of the 2022 Satellite Needs Working Group (SNWG) survey identified six science activities to address U.S. Federal civilian agency satellite needs.

News

July 18, 2024

image of Africa with colors around the continent indicating sea surface temperature; coolest temperatures (blue) are at the southern tip of Africa; warmest temperatures (orange/red) are mid-continent.

PO.DAAC Joins NASA's Earthdata Forum

The participation by NASA's Physical Oceanography Distributed Active Archive Center (PO.DAAC) in the Earthdata Forum gives users the chance to communicate with and learn from physical oceanography experts.

News

July 12, 2023