1. Presented at the LANCE User Working Group Meeting April 29, 2015 LANCE AMSR2 UPDATE Sherry Harrison sharrison@itsc.uah.edu

2. Topics System Products o Data o Imagery Metrics o Registered Users o Latency 4/29/152LANCE UWG

3. LANCE AMSR2 System JAXA GCOM-W1Data Providing Service LANCE AMSR2 Level 2 and Level 3 processing at AMSR SIPS (GHRC) GIBS L1R EOSDIS User Registration System (URS) Worldview Redundant processing strings on 2 independent networks in different buildings will greatly reduce the possibility of data being unavailable due to system outages LANCE AMSR2 NRT data products will be available at AMSR SIPS on GHRC DAAC, for 7-14 days JPG/PNG imagery Data Ingest & Processing LANCE Web & FTP Server LANCE Web & FTP Server AMSR2 NRT L2, L3 daily Science data Data Ingest & Processing lance.nsstc.nasa.gov lance.itsc.uah.edu gwen.nsstc.nasa.gov gwen.itsc.uah.edu KSAT Svalbard Ground Station APID packets https://gcom-w1.jaxa.jp ECHO LANCE AMSR2 NRT data product in HDF-EOS5 metadata Registered Users

4. AMSR2 NRT Data Products Product Short Name Description Principle Investigator Image A2_RainOcn_NRT NRT AMSR2 L2B Global Swath GSFC Profiling Algorithm 2010: Surface Precipitation, Wind Speed over Ocean, Water Vapor over Ocean and Cloud Liquid Water over Ocean Dr. Chris Kummerow A2_DySno_NRT (in progress) NRT AMSR2 Daily L3 Global Snow Water Equivalent EASE- Grids (daily incremental) Dr. Marco Tedesco 4/29/15LANCE UWG4

5. AMSR2 NRT Planned Data Products Product Short Name Description Principle Investigator A2_Land_NRTNRT AMSR2 L2B Surface Soil Moisture, Ancillary Parameters and QC EASE-Grids Dr. Eni Njoku A2_SI6_NRT NRT AMSR2 Daily L3 6.25 km 89 GHz Brightness Temperature (Tb) Polar Grids (daily incremental) Dr. Thorsten Markus A2_SI12_NRT NRT AMSR2 Daily L3 12.5 km Tb, Sea Ice Concentration and Snow Depth Polar Grids (daily incremental) Dr. Thorsten Markus A2_SI25_NRT NRT AMSR2 Daily L3 25 km Tb and Sea Ice Concentration Polar Grids (daily incremental) Dr. Thorsten Markus 4/29/15LANCE UWG5

6. AMSR2 High Resolution Imagery 4/29/156LANCE UWG

7. Registered Users 33 registered URS Users (since our public announcement on March 17, 2015) o from 12 different countries Affiliation of users 10 government 9 education 3 non-profit 1 agriculture 4/29/157LANCE UWG

8. Latency: AMSR2 RainOcean Using NRT L1R data 4/29/158LANCE UWG Using standard L1R data

9. L1R Input Data: Latency of Standard vs NRT Product Standard L1R processing pole to pole 1/2 orbits data files complete consistently not meeting 3 hour LANCE NRT processing requirement NRT L1R processing one satellite downlink, roughly a whole orbit we split the NRT L1R files at the southernmost observation, creating approximate 1/2 orbit files for processing occasional data loss meet LANCE NRT 3 hour processing requirement 4/29/159LANCE UWG

10. Back-Up Charts 4/29/1510LANCE UWG

11. Latency: AMSR2 L1R 4/29/1511LANCE UWG Using NRT L1R data Using standard L1R data