Data Announcement

Reprocessed MODIS Data Now Available

The NASA National Snow and Ice Data Center Distributed Active Archive Center (NSIDC DAAC) has been informed that our data provider, MODAPS, identified corrupt files that may have impacted previously forward processed data for all MODIS snow and sea ice products. NSIDC recommends that MODIS snow and sea ice data users replace the following files:

MODIS Terra
Files from Day of Year (DOY) 256 to DOY 271, downloaded before 6 October 2014. Files from DOY 277 to 282, downloaded before 11 October 2014.

MODIS Aqua
Files for DOY 271, downloaded before 6 October 2014. Files from DOY 277 to 280, downloaded before 11 October 2014.

To obtain the reprocessed data, simply re-download the affected files from NSIDC. A listing of MODIS data products can be found at: https://nsidc.org/data/modis If you have questions, please contact the User Services Office at nsidc@nsidc.org.