Data From Newest Ocean Satellite Ready for Their 'Close-up'
Friday, August 7, 2009 - 13:35
in Astronomy & Space
Following a year of calibration and validation by an international team of scientists, fully-validated, research-quality sea surface height data from the NASA/French Space Agency Ocean Surface Topography Mission/Jason-2 satellite are now available to the public. These "geophysical data record" products, as they are known, will be used primarily by climate researchers for climate monitoring and modeling.