PODAAC - SWOT question

[dvandemark]

Hello,

We have a couple science teams interested in looking at the limited amount of cal/val phase L1B ocean data from SWOT when it becomes available.
Do you have any advice on how to do that within the PODAAC framework of the data/code/cloud - or is all geared for L2 and higher level data?

thanks
Doug Vandemark

[PODAAC - jmcnelis]

Hi Doug,

Are you a member of SWOT Cal Val team?

[dvandemark]

No. Just regular science team.

We know we won't have access to the actual L1B until the public release later this year. Just wondering if PODAAC/AVISO will have and supply the tools to read and work with these files for the few ocean teams that are interested - or is it the same toolset as for the river data users?

[PODAAC - jmcnelis]

Gotcha, thanks. We don't have any data access tools specific to one domain. But we're working on some future capabilities to provide spatial subset/aggregation for certain L2 hydro data products from SWOT.

To access SWOT oceanography data, from cal/val campaigns or the standard products, we recommend using the AWS tools for in-cloud access (https://aws.amazon.com/cli/) and the PODAAC-maintained data downloader tool for typical downloads (available here from github: https://github.com/podaac/data-subscriber).

-Jack