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SWOT 2019-2020 Prelaunch Oceanography Field Campaign SIO Mooring WireWalker (WW)

Published by NASA/JPL/PODAAC | National Aeronautics and Space Administration | Metadata Last Checked: February 21, 2026 | Last Modified: 2026-02-17
This dataset provides the conductivity, temperature and depth (CTD) measurements from the CTD sensors on a WireWalker profiler on a full-depth mooring deployed by the SWOT prelaunch field campaign. The campaign was designed to test the performance of several instruments/platforms in meeting the SWOT Calibration/Validation (CalVal) requirement. It was conducted near the SWOT CalVal crossover location, about 300 kilometers west of Monterey, California between September, 2019 and January, 2020. The WW samples the upper 500 m of the water column, while the deep ocean below 500 m are measured by fixed-depth CTDs https://doi.org/10.5067/SWTPR-CTD01. The campaign also deployed another two CTD moorings, a slocum glider, one bottom pressure recorder and one Pressure Inverted Echo Sounder. Details can be found in the user guide and the journal reference given in the documentation section.

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