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Sea Surface Topography Datasets

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Dataset Version Platforms Instruments Temporal Extent Spatial Extent Spatial Resolution Data Format
NASA-SSH Global Mean Sea Level from Simple Gridded Sea Surface Height 1 TOPEX/POSEIDON, JASON-1, OSTM/JASON-2, JASON-3, Sentinel-6A SSALT, NRA, TMR, POSEIDON-2, JASON-1 Microwave Radiometer, POSEIDON-3, AMR, POSEIDON-3B, AMR-2, Poseidon-4 Radar Altimeter, AMR-C 1993-01-04

N: 66 S: -66 E: 180 W: -180

ASCII
NASA-SSH IOD Sea Surface Height Indicator 1 TOPEX/POSEIDON, JASON-1, OSTM/JASON-2, JASON-3, Sentinel-6A SSALT, NRA, TMR, POSEIDON-2, JASON-1 Microwave Radiometer, POSEIDON-3, AMR, POSEIDON-3B, AMR-2, Poseidon-4 Radar Altimeter, AMR-C 1993-01-04

N: 66 S: -66 E: 180 W: -180

ASCII
NASA-SSH PDO Sea Surface Height Indicator 1 TOPEX/POSEIDON, JASON-1, OSTM/JASON-2, JASON-3, Sentinel-6A SSALT, NRA, TMR, POSEIDON-2, JASON-1 Microwave Radiometer, POSEIDON-3, AMR, POSEIDON-3B, AMR-2, Poseidon-4 Radar Altimeter, AMR-C 1993-01-04

N: 66 S: -66 E: 180 W: -180

ASCII
NASA-SSH Simple Gridded Sea Surface Height from Standardized Reference Missions Only Version 1 1 TOPEX/POSEIDON, JASON-1, OSTM/JASON-2, JASON-3, Sentinel-6A SSALT, NRA, TMR, POSEIDON-2, JASON-1 Microwave Radiometer, POSEIDON-3, AMR, POSEIDON-3B, AMR-2, Poseidon-4 Radar Altimeter, AMR-C 1992-10-25 to Present

N: 90 S: -90 E: 180 W: -180

0.5 Decimal Degrees x 0.5 Decimal Degrees netCDF-4
Reconstructed Global Mean Sea Level 1900-2018 1.0 GRACE-FO, GRACE GRACE-FO MWI, GRACE-FO SCA, GRACE-FO ACC, GRACE SCA, GRACE INTERFEROMETER, GRACE ACC 1900-01-01 to 2018-12-31

N: 89.5 S: -89.5 E: 180 W: -180

netCDF-4
Reconstructed Sea Level Version 1 1 OSTM/JASON-2, Jason-1 Geodetic, JASON-1, TOPEX/POSEIDON AMR, POSEIDON-3, JASON-1 Microwave Radiometer, POSEIDON-2, TMR, SSALT 1950-01-03 to 2009-06-27

N: 90 S: -90 E: 180 W: -180

0.5 Decimal Degrees x 0.5 Decimal Degrees netCDF-4
SARAL Near-Real-Time Value-added Operational Geophysical Data Record Sea Surface Height Anomaly f SARAL ALTIKA Altimeter 2020-03-18

N: 82 S: -82 E: 180 W: -180

8000 Meters x 8000 Meters netCDF-4
SASSIE ECCO Ocean Bottom Pressure and Sea Surface Height - Daily Mean llc1080 Grid (Version 1 Release 1) V1R1 MITgcm 2014-01-15 to 2021-02-08 NETCDF4
SASSIE ECCO Ocean Bottom Pressure and Sea Surface Height - Snapshot llc1080 Grid (Version 1 Release 1) V1R1 MITgcm 2014-01-15 to 2021-02-08 NETCDF4
Seasat Level 1 Synthetic Aperture Radar Products 1 SEASAT 1 SAR 1978-07-04 to 1978-10-12 GeoTIFF, HDF5, XML, KML, Text File
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Featured Sea Surface Topography Observation Method: SWOT
NASA's Surface Water and Ocean Topography (SWOT) platform monitors Earth’s surface water and measures how water bodies, such seas and oceans, change over time. SWOTS measures water surface heights using its primary instrument, the Ka-band Radar Interferometer (KaRIn).
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Accessing Data for the World's Water with SWOT

Learn how to discover, access, and use Surface Water and Ocean Topography (SWOT) mission data and how these data can lead to new, innovative science and applications in the world of water.

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Hydrocron Hydrocron is an API that repackages hydrology datasets from SWOT into formats that make time-series analysis easier. Subsetting, Visualization
SWOT Swath Visualizer The Surface Water and Ocean Topography (SWOT) Swath Visualizer provides a visualization of two instruments’ coverage of Earth's surface: the Ka-band Radar Interferometer and altimeter. Analysis, Data Curation, Visualization
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