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aliases:
  - context: dataset
    lexicon: nsidc
    term: oai:nsidc/AQ3_NRCS
    url: http://nsidc.org/api/dataset/2/oai?verb=GetRecord&metadataPrefix=dif&identifier=oai:nsidc/AQ3_NRCS
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cite_metadata: ~
cited_by: []
contributors:
  - display_name: 'Data Archive : National Snow & Ice Data Center Distributed Active Archive Center '
    href: http://52.38.26.42:8080/contributor/4440.yaml
    id: 4440
    organization:
      country_code: US
      display_name: National Snow & Ice Data Center Distributed Active Archive Center
      identifier: national-snow-ice-data-center-distributed-active-archive-center
      name: National Snow & Ice Data Center Distributed Active Archive Center
      organization_type_identifier: federal
      type: organization
      url: http://nsidc.org/daac
    organization_uri: /organization/national-snow-ice-data-center-distributed-active-archive-center
    person: {}
    person_id: ~
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    role_type_identifier: data_archive
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description: "The data set consists of weekly polar-gridded Level-3 products of Aquarius L-band Normalized Radar Cross Section (NRCS) retrievals from the Aquarius/Satélite de Aplicaciones Científicas (SAC-D) mission, developed collaboratively between the U.S. National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) and Argentina's space agency, Comisión Nacional de Actividades Espaciales (CONAE)."
description_attribution: http://nsidc.org/data/aquarius/index.html
display_name: Aquarius L3 Weekly Polar-Gridded Normalized Radar Cross Section
doi: 10.5067/Aquarius/AQ3_NRCS.004
end_time: ~
files: []
href: http://52.38.26.42:8080/dataset/nasa-nsidcdaac-aq3_nrcs.yaml
identifier: nasa-nsidcdaac-aq3_nrcs
instrument_measurements: []
lat_max: -50
lat_min: -79
lon_max: 180
lon_min: -180
name: Aquarius L3 Weekly Polar-Gridded Normalized Radar Cross Section
native_id: AQ3_NRCS
parents: []
processing_level: ~
publication_year: ~
references: []
release_dt: 2014-07-24T00:00:00
scale: ~
scope: ~
spatial_extent: ~
spatial_ref_sys: ~
spatial_res: ~
start_time: 2011-08-25T00:00:00
temporal_extent: ~
temporal_resolution: ~
type: dataset
uri: /dataset/nasa-nsidcdaac-aq3_nrcs
url: http://nsidc.org/data/AQ3_NRCS
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version: ~
vertical_extent: ~