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On 1 September 2017, the NSIDC Data Viewer tool will be decommissioned; thus, permanently unavailable for any future use. There are no plans to replace it at this time.
Data Announcements: AMSR-E 
AMSR-E/AMSR2 Unified L2B Half-Orbit 25 km EASE-Grid Surface Soil Moisture, Version 1 Released
The Science Investigator-led Processing System (SIPS) has released the AMSR-E/AMSR2 Unified L2B Half-Orbit 25 km EASE-Grid Surface Soil Moisture data set. This data set provides a long-term data record (23… Read more »
NSIDC Polaris Search and Order being Retired 15 February 2017
THE NSIDC Polaris Search and Order tool will be retired on 15 February 2017. Please contact NSIDC User Services via email: nsidc@nsidc.org with questions.
Reprocessing Complete for AMSR-E/Aqua L2B Global Swath Surface Precipitation GSFC Profiling Algorithm, Version 3
The AMSR-E Science Investigator-led Processing System (SIPS) has completed reprocessing of the “AMSR-E/Aqua L2B Global Swath Surface Precipitation GSFC Profiling Algorithm” data set to Version 3. Both Version 2 and… Read more »
AMSR-E Updates L2B Rain Product
The AMSR-E Science Investigator-led Processing System (SIPS) has updated the AMSR-E L2B rain data set, AMSR-E/Aqua L2B Global Swath Surface Precipitation GSFC Profiling Algorithm, to Version 3. Version 3 utilizes the GPROF… Read more »
Version 2 AMSR-E Sea Ice data unavailable after 16 February 2015 from the NASA National Snow and Ice Data Center Distributed Active Archive Center (NSIDC DAAC)
Version 2 of the AMSR-E Sea Ice data sets will only be available from NASA National Snow and Ice Data Center Distributed Active Archive Center (NSIDC DAAC) until 16 February 2015… Read more »
Reprocessing Complete for Version 3 AMSR-E Sea Ice Data at NSIDC DAAC
The AMSR-E Science Investigator-led Processing System (SIPS) has completed reprocessing of the AMSR-E sea ice data sets to Version 3. The following data sets are now available at the NASA… Read more »
AMSR-E Updates Sea Ice Products
The AMSR-E Science Investigator-led Processing System (SIPS) has updated the following AMSR-E sea ice data sets to Version 3: AMSR-E Aqua Daily L3 6.25 km 89 GHz Brightness Temperature Polar… Read more »
NSIDC Web Site and FTP Server Down for System Maintenance
From 4:30 p.m. Wednesday, June 04 until noon Friday, June 06 (USA Mountain Time), our Web site and FTP server will be unavailable due to system maintenance. We apologize for… Read more »
Beginning 10 Feb. 2014, AMSR-E/Aqua L2A Global Swath Spatially-Resampled Brightness Temperatures Version 2 No Longer Available
Beginning 10 Feb. 2014, Version 2 AMSR-E/Aqua L2A Global Swath Spatially-Resampled Brightness Temperatures will no longer be available from NSIDC. Version 3 of the AMSR-E/Aqua L2A Global Swath Spatially-Resampled Brightness… Read more »
