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AE_WkOcn·v2·dataset

Weekly ocean conditions from a microwave satellite (AMSR-E on Aqua)

AMSR-E/Aqua Weekly L3 Global Ascending/Descending .25x.25 deg Ocean Grids V002
atmosphere NASA NSIDC_CPRD Level 3 HDF-EOS2
In plain English

What it measures. Weekly snapshots of ocean conditions worldwide: sea surface temperature, near-surface wind speed, water vapor in the air column, and cloud liquid water, all on a fine grid.

How it's made. Derived from the AMSR-E microwave instrument on NASA's Aqua satellite and averaged into weekly global maps.

How & where you'd use it. Useful for tracking ocean and weather conditions and for studies of how the ocean and atmosphere interact over time.

What's measured

ATMOSPHERE › CLOUDS › CLOUD MICROPHYSICS › CLOUD LIQUID WATER/ICEATMOSPHERE › CLOUDS › CLOUD MICROPHYSICS › CLOUD PRECIPITABLE WATERCLIMATE INDICATORS › ATMOSPHERIC/OCEAN INDICATORS › SEA SURFACE TEMPERATURE INDICESATMOSPHERE › ATMOSPHERIC WINDS › SURFACE WINDSOCEANS › OCEAN TEMPERATURE › WATER TEMPERATUREATMOSPHERE › ATMOSPHERIC WATER VAPOR › WATER VAPOR INDICATORS

Coverage & cadence

  • Time span2002-06-19 → 2011-10-02
  • Measured byAQUA (AMSR-E)
  • Processing levelLevel 3
  • Spatial extent-180, -89.24, 180, 89.24
  • FormatsHDF-EOS2
  • StatusCOMPLETE

What you can do with it

  • Map air pollutants — NO₂, aerosols, ozone
  • Track greenhouse gases and Earth's energy budget
  • Feed weather and air-quality analysis
Official description

The Level-3 daily product (AE_DyOcn), weekly product (AE_WkOcn), and monthly product (AE_MoOcn) include SST, near-surface wind speed, columnar water vapor, and columnar cloud liquid water over oceans in a 0.25 degree by 0.25 degree grid, generated from AE_Ocean.

Get the data

ae_wkocn_access.py
import earthaccess
earthaccess.login(strategy="netrc")          # free Earthdata Login

results = earthaccess.search_data(
    short_name="AE_WkOcn",
    version="2",
    bounding_box=(-122.5, 37.2, -121.8, 37.9),  # your area (W,S,E,N)
    temporal=("2024-01-01", "2024-12-31"),       # your dates
)
files = earthaccess.open(results)   # stream straight from NSIDC_CPRD
Browsing CMR needs no login. Downloading or streaming bytes needs a free Earthdata Login + the earthaccess package.