AMSR-E / AMSR2 Team Leader Science Computing Facility

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AMSR-E / AMSR2 Team Leader Science Computing
Facility

• Current Science Software
• Science Software Updates
• End of Mission Schedule
• AMSR2 Team Products

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Current Science Software

• L2A Brightness Temperatures V12
• RSS V07 delivered to TLSCF - Jan 2013
• TLSCF integration
• New ISO metadata
• Updated ECS metadata
• Documentation
• New ESDT
• New Reader
• TLSCF delivered to SIPS June 2013
• There were 15 files that did not include equator
  crossing longitude and time in the metadata
• Needed to pass QA
• SIPS GHCC (Beaumont) corrected these

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Current Science Software

• L2B Ocean V07
• July 2010
• Updates to accommodate LANCE processing
• Last algorithm updates
• Version V05, April 2007
• Improved beamfilling correction to account for
  different footprint sizes of different
  frequencies
• Include a new expression for the rain column
  height that yields more accurate rain flags

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Current Science Software

• L2B Land V10
• July 2010
• Updates to accommodate LANCE processing
• Last algorithm update
• Version B03, June 2005
• Minor modification to the soil moisture QC

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Current Science Software

• L2B Rain V11
• July 2010
• Updates to accommodate LANCE processing
• GPROF 2010 delivered to the TLSCF (L2B Rain V12)
• Expecting algorithm updates soon
• Integrate new L2A reader
• Add ISO metadata
• Update ECS metadata
• New ESDT
• Update documentation

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Current Science Software

• L3 Ocean V05
• July 2010
• Updates to metadata to accommodate LANCE
  processing
• Last algorithm updates
• Version V04, May 2010
• RIF Filtering
• Update Aral Sea filters
• Include the RFI angle grid in the product

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Current Science Software

• L3 Land V07
• July 2010
• Updates to metadata to accommodate LANCE
  processing
• Last algorithm update
• Version B03, May 2005
• Correct grid projection parameters

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Current Science Software

• L3 Snow V10
• August 2010
• Updates to metadata to accommodate LANCE
  processing
• Last algorithm update
• Version B05, November 2005
• Update the forest cover ancillary files.
• The daily product retrievals are now performed on
  the AMSR-E individual Tb samples which are then
  averaged to the EASE-Grid 25x25 km northern and
  southern hemisphere projection grid.
• Retrievals are calibrated for snow depth with a
  snow density climatology file used to convert
  snow depth to snow water equivalent.

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Current Science Software

• L3 Rain V07
• April 2011
• Improved quality check on input data date
• Last algorithm update V06, April 2008
• Skip duplicate (overlapping) scans in consecutive
  L2A files
• Improve L2A Brightness Temperature binning for
  monthly ocean grids
• Update the leap second ancillary file to include
  the leap second which occurred at the end of 2005
• Next update
• Derived from L2B Rain as input (GPROF 2010)
• Monthly
• 0.25 degree resolution

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Current Science Software

• L3 Sea Ice V14
• July 2012
• Update Southern Hemisphere sea ice mask using
  National Ice Center (NIC) data from June 2011
• Mask provided by NSIDC
• The shoreline was developed from ENVISAT and
  RADARSAT imagery from OCT 2009 until APR 2010.

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Current Science Software

• L3 Sea Ice V14
• Update to the algorithm to correct internal land
  / ocean flag that conflicted with the new sea ice
  mask
• TLSCF integration in progress
• New ISO metadata
• Updated ECS metadata
• Documentation
• New ESDT
• New L2A reader integration
• Review by NSIDC and Science Team

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Current Science Software

• L3 Sea Ice Drift B03
• Polar Stereographic grids containing speed and
  direction for each hemisphere
• Derived from AMSR-E 89 GHz 6.25 km resolution
  Tbs
• Uses the 6.25 km and 12.5 km AMSR-E sea ice
  products as input
• Uses a 5 day window
• Browse created during product generation
• New Requirement Java

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Current Science Software
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Algorithm Updates

• All PGEs will be updated to include
• New ISO metadata
• Updated ECS metadata
• Documentation
• New ESDT
• New Reader
• L2A Tbs
• Updates?
• L2 Ocean
• Expect update based on new L2A
• Significant changes? Delivery date?
• L2 Rain
• Delivered to TLSCF integration in progress

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Algorithm Updates

• L3 Sea Ice Drift
• Format change to include an image in the product
  file
• Any updates from the science team?
• L2 L3 Land
• Significant updates to algorithm
• Format changes? Delivery date?
• L3 Sea Ice
• Currently integrating algorithm change to
  accommodate new land / ocean mask
• Updates expected based on new L2A?

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Algorithm Updates

• L3 Snow
• Algorithm updates?
• Inclusion of SWE research product (Tedesco) as
  part of the output file available at NSIDC once
  it is peer reviewed

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End of Mission Schedule

• Sep 2013 Jan 2014 Algorithm updates due to
  TLSCF
• TLSCF currently working on the L3 Sea Ice and L2
  Rain updates
• TLSCF updates ECS metadata
• ISO Lineage metadata
• Documentation and DAP
• IT
• For those algorithms with no changes, TLSCF
  updates ECS metadata, ISO Lineage metadata,
  documentation and DAP
• Please advise if there are no updates to the
  algorithms

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End of Mission Schedule

• Jan 2014 Dec 2014
• FINAL End of Mission algorithm updates due to
  TLSCF
• NO updates after Dec 2014
• Jan 2015 Jun 2015
• TLSCF integration of End of Mission algorithms
• Metadata updates
• QA updates
• Ancillary file updates
• Jun 2015 Dec 2015
• Clean up
• Documentation
• Final Report

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Continuation of AMSR-E Data Record w/JAXA AMSR2

• AMSR2 U. S. Science Team
• Dr. Roy Spencer, UAH
• Dr. Donald Cavalieri, GSFC
• Dr. Josefino Comiso, GSFC
• Mr. Ralph Ferraro, NOAA
• Dr. Thomas Jackson, USDA
• Dr. Christian Kummerow, CSU
• Dr. Thorsten Markus, GSFC
• Dr. Eni Njoku, JPL
• Dr. Marco Tedesco, CUNY

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Continuation of AMSR-E Data Record w/JAXA AMSR2
Product Algorithm Team Affiliation
L2 Ocean Products wind speed, water vapor, cloud liquid water Kummerow Colorado State University
L2 Global Rain Rate Kummerow, Ferraro CSU, NOAA
L2 Surface Soil Moisture Jackson, Enjoku USDA, JPL
L3 Ocean Products Daily, Weekly, Monthly Kummerow CSU
L3 Daily, 5-day, Monthly Snow Water Equivalent Tedesco City University New York
L3 Daily Sea Ice Products sea ice concentration, snow depth over ice, and brightness temperatures Markus, Comiso, Cavalieri GSFC
L3 Daily Sea Ice Drift Markus, Comiso, Cavalieri GSFC
L3 Daily Surface Soil Moisture Jackson, Enjoku USDA, JPL
L3 Monthly Rain Kummerow, Ferraro CSU, NOAA
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Continuation of AMSR-E Data Record w/JAXA AMSR2

• JAXA L1R Brightness Temperatures will be used
  as input

Resolution Channels Footprint
1 All Channels 6.9 GHz
2 10.6 89.0 GHz 10.6 GHz
3 18.7 89.0 GHz 23.8 GHz
4 36.5 89.0 GHz 36.5 GHz
5 89.0 GHz 89.0 GHz
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Continuation of AMSR-E Data Record w/JAXA AMSR2

• AMSR2 NASA L2B and L3
• HDF-EOS 5
• Integration at TLSCF equivalent to AMSR-E
  products
• ISO metadata ECS metadata QA routines DAP
  Delivery
• ESDT
• Browse
• Documentation
• Troubleshooting
• Support NSIDC in resolving user questions

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Continuation of AMSR-E Data Record w/JAXA AMSR2

• L1R reader
• Written and tested by Bruce Beaumont of the SIPS
  (LANCE)
• Available to science team now
• Science team algorithms
• Expected first delivery?
• Will be used for LANCE processing by the SIPS