• On Wednesday, December 3 from 9:00 a.m. to 11 a.m. (US Mountain Time), this data set may not be available in the legacy data archive due to a planned system maintenance. Earthdata Cloud access will remain available for data sets that have migrated.

  • The NSIDC DAAC is retiring access to its legacy, on-premises data archive and transitioning to the NASA Earthdata Cloud as the primary data archive. View planned retirement dates here.

AMSR-E

Advanced Microwave Scanning Radiometer - Earth Observing System Sensor on the NASA Aqua Satellite

Data Announcements

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. The products and algorithms affected by this error
pdates are complete for following AMSR-E data products: AMSR-E/AQUA Daily L3 6.25 km 89GHz Brightness Temperature Polar Grids AMSR-E/Aqua Daily L3 12.5 km Tb, Sea Ice Concentration, and Snow Depth
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.