PO.DAAC Cookbook

Making complex data simple with a few helpful tutorials

Welcome!

Welcome to the tutorial repository for the Physical Oceanography Distributed Active Archive Center (PO.DAAC)! Our goal is to make NASA’s ocean, climate, and surface water data universally accessible and meaningful.

This site is under active, open development. Stay tuned for more and ever-evolving content!

About the Cookbook

The PO.DAAC Cookbook is a place to learn about & experiment with the NASA Earthdata datasets we host. All data can be accessed freely in the cloud or downloaded locally. The How To section gives bite-sized pieces of code created in collaboration with the NASA Earthdata Cloud Cookbook community. Tutorials connect these pieces together to form example workflows specific to PO.DAAC datasets both within the cloud and on a local machine. To learn more about the cloud specifically, see the Earthdata Cloud Primer.

Most tutorials included in this cookbook are created with Python Jupyter Notebooks. All chapters in the cookbook are a combination of narrative, links, code, and outputs — and underlying each chapter is a file type that you can access on PO.DAAC GitHub (linked on the left navbar): Jupyter (.ipynb) or Quarto (.qmd) files.

About PO.DAAC

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.

For a brief overview of PO.DAAC’s history, see The Evolution of the PO.DAAC: Seasat to SWOT.

Citation

Please cite the PO.DAAC Cookbook through the project’s Zenodo archive using DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.10530664. This DOI represents all versions, and will always resolve to the latest one.

The citation will look something like:

Nickles, C., Taglialatela, C., McNelis, J., Gangl, M., Ou, C., Tarpinian, N., McDonald, V., Henze, D., Tebaldi, N., Greguska, F., Perez, S., Wang, J., Armstrong, E., Sanchez, J., Walschots, Z., Liu, S., & Gentemann, C. (2024). podaac/tutorials: PO.DAAC Cookbook v2024.01 (v2024.01.18). Zenodo. https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.10530664

Please visit the Cookbook’s DOI link to get the most recent version - the one above is not automatically generated and may be out of date as we release updated versions of the Cookbook.

License

The process documents and data are made available under a CC-BY 4.0 license. This license enables reusers to distribute, remix, adapt, and build upon the material in any medium or format, so long as attribution is given to the creator. The license allows for commercial use. © PO.DAAC

Software are made available under an Apache-2.0 License. Unless required by applicable law or agreed to in writing, software distributed under the License is distributed on an “AS IS” BASIS, WITHOUT WARRANTIES OR CONDITIONS OF ANY KIND, either express or implied. See the License for the specific language governing permissions and limitations under the License.

Disclaimer

Reference herein to any specific commercial product, process, or service by trade name, trademark, manufacturer, or otherwise, does not constitute or imply its endorsement by the United States Government or the Jet Propulsion Laboratory, California Institute of Technology.