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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 »
Data Announcements: AMSR-E 
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 »
Data FTP URL Change
Notice to Users of AMSR-E, GLAS, IceBridge, MODIS and NISE Data. The FTP location for accessing AMSR-E, GLAS, IceBridge, MODIS, and NISE data changed in October from n4ftl01u.ecs.nasa.gov to n5eil01u.ecs.nsidc.org…. Read more »
Land Surface Emissivity Data from AMSR-E/Aqua Now Available
Global, monthly land surface emissivity data from the Advanced Microwave Scanning Radiometer – Earth Observing System (AMSR-E) are now available at NSIDC. These data complement existing passive microwave measurements from… Read more »
Reprocessing Complete for AMSR-E Version 3 Brightness Temperatures
Version 3 reprocessing is now complete for the AMSR-E/Aqua Level-2A Global Swath Spatially-Resampled Brightness Temperatures (AE_L2A) data set. Changes to the Version 3 algorithm for these data include: Improved Radio… Read more »
Reprocessing Underway for AMSR-E/Aqua L2A Data
Updated Version 3 brightness temperature data are now available for the AMSR-E/Aqua Level-2A Global Swath Spatially-Resampled Brightness Temperatures (AE_L2A) data set. Changes to the Version 3 algorithm for these data… Read more »
AMSR2 Brightness Temperature Data Now Available at JAXA
Brightness Temperature data products from the Advanced Microwave Scanning Radiometer 2 (AMSR2) onboard the Global Change Observation Mission 1st – Water (GCOM-W1) satellite have recently been released by the Japan… Read more »
Reprocessing of AMSR-E Sea Ice Products
NSIDC has been notified of an error in AMSR-E sea ice data products that caused valid data in the Southern Hemisphere to be obscured by a land mask.
