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Notice Regarding AMSR-E Instrument Failure:
As of 06:58 UTC on 04 October 2011, the AMSR-E instrument on board the Aqua
satellite stopped producing data due to a problem with the rotation of its
antenna. NASA is currently working with the Japan Aerospace Exploration
Agency (JAXA) to assess the condition of the AMSR-E instrument and consider
future steps. As more information becomes available, NSIDC will post updates
via RSS news feed and inform registered AMSR-E users via email. For more information or to register as an AMSR-E data user, please contact NSIDC User Services.
On Wednesdays from 8:30 a.m. to 12:00 p.m. (USA Mountain Time), AMSR-E, IceBridge, ICESat/GLAS, MODIS, and NISE data are normally unavailable for ordering due to system maintenance. However, on the first Wednesday of each month, these data will be unavailable for ordering from 8:30 a.m. to 1:00 p.m. (USA Mountain Time).
AMSR-E data are available from five sources: the Data Pool, Reverb, File Transfer Protocol (FTP) through subscription, the Land Atmosphere Near-real-time Capability for EOS (LANCE) system, or RSS Feed. The following table provides a link and brief
description for each data source.
| Data Source Link | Data Source Information |
|---|---|
Data Pool |
The Data Pool provides direct File Transfer Protocol (FTP) access to NSIDC Earth Observing System (EOS) data, including the entire archive of AMSR-E data. It also offers users the HDF-to-GeoTIFF (HEG) conversion tool, which allows users to reformat, re-project, and perform subsetting operations. |
Reverb |
Search and discover the entire archive of AMSR-E data, as well as data from NSIDC and other Earth Observing System Data and Information System (EOSDIS) data centers. Designed to work with ECHO, the Earth Observing System (EOS) Clearinghouse, Reverb also offers functions such as parameter and spatial subsetting. |
Subscription |
Subscribe to have new AMSR-E data automatically sent via FTP to your local server or staged on the NSIDC FTP site when the data become available. |
LANCE AMSR-E |
Access near-real-time AMSR-E data through the NASA Land Atmosphere Near-real-time Capability for EOS (LANCE) data system at the AMSR-E Science Investigator-led Processing System (SIPS). |
 Data Feed |
Subscribe to receive new Level-2 AMSR-E Ocean (AE_Ocean) data via an RSS feed as soon as they are ingested at NSIDC. Each RSS feed entry includes a direct link to the data and corresponding metadata. Courtesy of the Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL), the RSS data feed was developed under the NASA JPL Datacasting project. For more information, including feed reader and publisher guides, visit the JPL Datacasting: Earth Science Meets RSS Web site. |
Note: The highest version number represents the best quality data available.
