Aquarius salinity, wind speed and wind direction data from the Combined
Active-Passive (CAP) algorithm are now available at the PO.DAAC.
Differences from previous algorithms include:
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The removal of the dependence on the NCEP wind direction for
retrieval. The CAP algorithm was developed to retrieve the salinity and wind
without the need to use the NCEP winds for corrections.
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The CAP algorithm simultaneously retrieves the salinity, wind speed and
direction by minimizing the sum of squared differences between model and
observations.
Aquarius CAP L2 swath and L3 7day gridded, products, along with other
versions of Aquarius data, associated reader software and user guide
documentation, are accessible via ftp://saltmarsh.jpl.nasa.gov/.
New users will first have to undertake a simple registration for the
purposes of acknowledging a disclaimer.
This can be done by going to http://podaac.jpl.nasa.gov/AquariusDataAccess.
Questions may be addressed to salinity@podaac.jpl.nasa.gov.
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