Find Data - NASA Physical Oceanography Distributed Active Archive Center
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Find Data - PODAAC
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The Physical Oceanography Distributed Active Archive Center (PO.DAAC) is a NASA Earth Observing System Data and Information System (EOSDIS) data center managed by the Earth Science Data and Information System (ESDIS) Project. The PO.DAAC is operated by Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL) in Pasadena, California.
The PO.DAAC is proud to be a CoreTrustSeal Certified Repository. CoreTrustSeal is an international, community-based, non-governmental, and non-profit organization promoting sustainable and trustworthy data infrastructures.
The mission of the PO.DAAC is to preserve NASA’s ocean and climate data and make these universally accessible and meaningful.
Since the launch of NASA's first ocean-observing satellite, Seasat, in 1978, PO.DAAC has become the premier data center for measurements focused on sea surface topography, ocean temperature, ocean winds, salinity, gravity, and ocean circulation.
In addition to providing access to its data holdings, PO.DAAC acts as a gateway to data stored at other ocean and climate archives. This and other tools and services enable PO.DAAC supports a wide user community working in areas such as ocean and climate research, applied science and industry, natural resource management, policymaking, and general public consumption.