1. Archive & Distribution Status Amanda Leon, NSIDC AMSR-E Lead Joint AMSR-E Science Team Meeting Washington DC 25-26 June 2009

2. Joint AMSR-E Science Team Meeting Amanda Leon - NSIDC DAAC25-26 June 2009 2 Outline AMSR-E Product Status Data Support Statistics Activities at NSIDC ADEOS-II/AMSR Status AMSR-E Validation Status Statistics Sea ice derived from the AMSR-E 89 GHz Tbs. Image courtesy of NASA/GSFC Visualization Studio

3. Joint AMSR-E Science Team Meeting Amanda Leon - NSIDC DAAC25-26 June 2009 3 Archive and Distribution Status All products are Version 2  Reprocessing completed late September 2008 Version 1 is no longer distributed Current Version 2 reprocessing will bring all products to validated algorithm versions  L2A: HDF compression, checksum, DirectTV RFI glint angles  L2B & L3 Land: validated version  L3 Snow: validated version  L3 Sea Ice: validated version, improved tie points AMSR-E Data Versions: http://nsidc.org/data/amsre/versions.html

4. Joint AMSR-E Science Team Meeting Amanda Leon - NSIDC DAAC25-26 June 2009 4 Data Support: Ordering Data Warehouse Inventory Search Tool (WIST) Connects to ECHO metadata database Search/order entire archive Browse, spatial/parameter subsetting https://wist.echo.nasa.gov/~wist/api/imswelcome Data Pool On-line access via user GUI or FTP site Access to entire archive Browse, spatial/parameter subsetting, format/projection conversion http://nsidc.org/data/data_pool/ AMSR-E Order Data Page: http://nsidc.org/data/amsre/order_data.html

5. Joint AMSR-E Science Team Meeting Amanda Leon - NSIDC DAAC25-26 June 2009 5 Data Support: Ordering Data Search 'N Order Interface (SNOWI) Search/order entire archive No subsetting http://nsidc.org/data/snowi/ Subscriptions Data are automatically provided to the user at the time they are ingested at NSIDC. http://nsidc.org/daac/subscriptions.html Preliminary (NRT) Data Most recent eight days of L2 & L3 products Less than 24 hour latency http://nsidc.org/data/amsre/prelim.html

6. Joint AMSR-E Science Team Meeting Amanda Leon - NSIDC DAAC25-26 June 2009 6 Data Support AMSR-E Documentation: http://nsidc.org/data/amsre/data_summaries/index.html Documentation Comprehensive product documentation, recently updated Algorithm production code (aka DAPs) with release notes available to public Provide access to ATBDs AMSR-E Research: http://nsidc.org/data/amsre/research.html Published Research Citations updated annually  Please email any additions or corrections to Amanda.Leon@nsidc.org or nsidc@nsidc.org

7. Joint AMSR-E Science Team Meeting Amanda Leon - NSIDC DAAC25-26 June 2009 7 Data Support AMSR-E Tools Page: http://nsidc.org/data/amsre/tools.html Tools AMSR-E Swath-to-Grid Toolkit (AS2GT) HDF-EOS Web-based (HEW) Subsetter HDF-EOS to GeoTiff (HEG) Hierarchical Data Format - Earth Observing System (HDF-EOS) User Services Provide support of data products, in-house developed tools, and proprietary software Interact with users to determine and understand their AMSR-E data needs Coordinate product announcements, outreach materials, and NSIDC presence at meetings User Services – nsidc@nsidc.org

8. Joint AMSR-E Science Team Meeting Amanda Leon - NSIDC DAAC25-26 June 2009 8 Archive Statistics Data TypeSize (GB) AE_5DSno1.20 AE_DyOcn30.29 AE_DySno6.09 AE_L2A5499.25 AE_Land66.32 AE_Land3183.41 AE_MoOcn1.01 AE_MoSno0.20 AE_Ocean899.00 AE_Rain784.79 AE_RnGd0.01 AE_SI12211.73 AE_SI2572.39 AE_SI6163.87 AE_WkOcn4.39 AMSR-L1A254.46 AMSREL1A2770.15 Total Version 2 Archive: 10.7 TBs Old average L2A size = 85 MB New, compressed L2A size = 51.5 MB Compression will reduce L2A archive by 40% (~2.3 TB) Stats from ECS AIM database Average ice sheet surface temperature over Greenland from August 5 through August 13, 2005 using AMSR-E 6.25 Tbs and 12.5 km sea ice products. Image courtesy of NASA/GSFC Visualization Studio.

9. Joint AMSR-E Science Team Meeting Amanda Leon - NSIDC DAAC25-26 June 2009 9 Distribution Statistics: Total Data TypeFilesVolume (GB) AE_5DSNO3934263.68 AE_DYOCN38298362.24 AE_DYSNO218705358.30 AE_L2A3749906205655.45 AE_LAND810253438.85 AE_LAND364586127171.69 AE_MOOCN129510.09 AE_MOSNO744210.74 AE_OCEAN5684694789.43 AE_RAIN138378910330.29 AE_RNGD30210.18 AE_SI1226236810803.56 AE_SI25982171299.38 AE_SI6972233334.91 AE_WKOCN293820.35 AMSREL1A1620414989.99 Total8089168269639.11 18 June 2002 – 1 June 2009 Stats from EMS Total Distribution: 263.32 TBs 8 million files AMSR-E sea surface temperatures in the Gulf of Mexico on 29 May 2009. Image courtesy of NASA/GSFC Visualization Studio.

10. Joint AMSR-E Science Team Meeting Amanda Leon - NSIDC DAAC25-26 June 2009 10 Distribution Statistics: Trends 2004 - 2009 Distribution Files 233,958 Stats from EMS 787,663 949,987 498,977 1,676,571 976,742 2003-2004 3426% 2004-2005 113% 2005-2006 90% 2006-2007 -17% 2007-2008 113%

11. Joint AMSR-E Science Team Meeting Amanda Leon - NSIDC DAAC25-26 June 2009 11 Distribution Statistics: Trends 2004 - 2009 Distribution Volume Stats from EMS 13,129 56,629 44,772 22,026 74,169 42,054 2003-2004 691% 2004-2005 68% 2005-2006 103% 2006-2007 26% 2007-2008 31%

12. Joint AMSR-E Science Team Meeting Amanda Leon - NSIDC DAAC25-26 June 2009 12 Distribution Statistics: Users User TypeDistinct Users US University500 US State/Local Gvt12 US Other68 US K-123 US Government15 US Gen Pub9 US Fed Government50 US Commercial43 NOAA40 NASA138 Foreign University556 Foreign Other498 Foreign K-122 Foreign Gvrnmt161 Foreign Commercial40 ECS Other18 WDC2 Other1 Data TypeDistinct Users AE_5DSNO208 AE_DYOCN114 AE_DYSNO244 AE_L2A1151 AE_LAND315 AE_LAND3589 AE_MOOCN50 AE_MOSNO124 AE_OCEAN225 AE_RAIN217 AE_RNGD92 AE_SI12363 AE_SI25157 AE_SI6141 AE_WKOCN43 AMSREL1A153 18 June 2002 – 1 June 2009 41.7 % - U.S. Users 58.3% - Foreign Users Stats from EMS & USO TRAK Database ~2500 Distinct AMSR-E Users

13. Joint AMSR-E Science Team Meeting Amanda Leon - NSIDC DAAC25-26 June 2009 13 Distribution Statistics: Users CountryUsersVolume (MB) Argentina131279 Australia42694957 Austria1086206 Belgium39068 Brazil17102759 Bulgaria10 Canada2255496965 Chile1424186 China86427010458 Colombia590 Czech Republic10 Denmark10116895 England31574 European Union63983 Finland271141829 France835005798 Germany9611129647 Greece32127 Hong Kong6148158 CountryUsersVolume (MB) Hungary224 India811152583 Indonesia4624 Iran3622 Israel5314 Italy1665674394 Japan25547622203 Korea, Republic of621043237 Kyrgyzstan150582 Kuwait210 Luxembourg3142325 Mongolia229 Morocco10 Netherlands363013734 New Zealand557626 Norway347814 Peru162 Poland2407 Portugal162 Stats from EMS CountryUsersVolume (MB) Puerto Rico283 Romania7190 Russian Federation7642081 Serbia263 Singapore211 South Africa426009 Spain9706 Suriname10 Sweden95 Switzerland26236704 Taiwan26194620 Thailand1620 Turkey13292779 Ukraine1423976 United Kingdom861701323 United States2,313129590981 Uzbekistan93737681 Unknown373229 Users and Volume by Country

14. Joint AMSR-E Science Team Meeting Amanda Leon - NSIDC DAAC25-26 June 2009 14 Distribution Statistics: Users Stats from USO TRAK Database User community continues to grow 2003 - 2009 Total Distinct Users per Year

15. Joint AMSR-E Science Team Meeting Amanda Leon - NSIDC DAAC25-26 June 2009 15 Distribution Statistics: NRT Data Preliminary (NRT) AMSR-E Data Distribution through 1 June 2009 20% increase in users over past year Statistics from our University FTP logs NRT 12.5 km Sea Ice concentration data in Google Earth for 20 June 2009. Data Type Distinct UsersFiles Volume (MB) AE_DYOCN262112.18 AE_DYSNO59851617.02 AE_L2A265100584511993.67 AE_LAND852205714.40 AE_LAND31564172209.56 AE_OCEAN5931028368.36 AE_RAIN34544453.86 AE_SI125411462318.37 AE_SI2541165032.82 AE_SI650111046.56 Total599109149513056.80

16. Joint AMSR-E Science Team Meeting Amanda Leon - NSIDC DAAC25-26 June 2009 16 Activities at NSIDC NRT 12.5 km sea ice in Google Earth  30/60/90 day animations  Sea ice concentration and extent  http://nsidc.org/data/virtual_globes/index.html http://nsidc.org/data/virtual_globes/index.html NRT 12.5 km sea ice in Science on a Sphere  In 37 locations around the world  http://sos.noaa.gov/ http://sos.noaa.gov/ QA files will be available to users in January 2010

17. Joint AMSR-E Science Team Meeting Amanda Leon - NSIDC DAAC25-26 June 2009 17 ADEOS-II/AMSR L1A and L2A archived and available for distribution  28 January -24 October 2003 Must be a NASA approved user to order data Website and documentation at NSIDC http://nsidc.org/data/amsr/index.html http://nsidc.org/data/amsr/index.html Warehouse Inventory Search Tool (WIST) https://wist.echo.nasa.gov/api/ https://wist.echo.nasa.gov/api/

18. Joint AMSR-E Science Team Meeting Amanda Leon - NSIDC DAAC25-26 June 2009 18 AMSR-E Validation Status & Stats Cryosphere  Alaska Sea Ice  AMSRIce03  AMSRIce06  East Antarctic Sea Ice  Meltpond 2000  Puenta Arenas  West Antarctic Sea Ice  Sea of Okhostk Rainfall  BALTEX  Eureka, CA  Iowa City, IA  Wakasa Bay Soil Moisture  SMEX02  SMEX03  SMEX04-NAME  SMEX05 Distinct Users Cryosphere: 110 (24% ) Rainfall: 292 (14% ) Soil Moisture: 1492 (27% ) Total: 1894 (29% )

19. Joint AMSR-E Science Team Meeting Amanda Leon - NSIDC DAAC25-26 June 2009 19 AMSR-E Validation Distribution Stats Files download from FTP site through 1 June 2009 compared to last year (1 July 2008) Statistics from our University FTP logs

20. Joint AMSR-E Science Team Meeting Amanda Leon - NSIDC DAAC25-26 June 2009 20 AMSR-E Validation Distribution Stats Volume downloaded from FTP site through 1 June 2008 compared to last year (1 July 2008) Statistics from our University FTP logs

21. Joint AMSR-E Science Team Meeting Amanda Leon - NSIDC DAAC25-26 June 2009 21 AMSR-E Validation Documentation Implemented a new documentation process  Greatly reduces the time and resources required to publish a data set

22. Joint AMSR-E Science Team Meeting Amanda Leon - NSIDC DAAC25-26 June 2009 22 AMSR-E Team at NSIDC Thanks to the AMSR-E Teams at NSIDC! AMSR-E Chris Bond – Operations Karla LeFevre – Technical Writer Lisa Booker – User Services Jeff Smith – Programmer Siri Jodha Khalsa – ECS Science Coordinator Walt Meier – Scientist Doug Fowler – Test Engineer Cathy Fowler – Database Administrator AMSR-E Validation Chris Bond – Operations Karla LaFevre – Technical Writer Dan Webster – Technical Writer Lisa Booker – User Services Jeff Smith – Programmer

23. Joint AMSR-E Science Team Meeting Amanda Leon - NSIDC DAAC25-26 June 2009 23 Backup Slides

24. Joint AMSR-E Science Team Meeting Amanda Leon - NSIDC DAAC25-26 June 2009 24 AMSR-E Activities at NSIDC Redesigned AMSR-E Web site  http://nsidc.org/data/amsre/index.html http://nsidc.org/data/amsre/index.html Google Earth 30/60/90 day NRT 12.5 km sea ice concentration and extent animations  http://nsidc.org/data/virtual_globes/index.html http://nsidc.org/data/virtual_globes/index.html NRT12.5 km sea ice images used by Science on a Sphere  http://nsidc.org/data/virtual_globes/index.html http://nsidc.org/data/virtual_globes/index.html QA files should be available to users in January 2010

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