1. September 4 -5, 2013Dawn Conway, AMSR-E / AMSR2 TLSCF Lead Software Engineer AMSR-E / AMSR2 Team Leader Science Computing Facility Current Science Software Science Software Updates End of Mission Schedule AMSR2 Team & Products

2. September 4 -5, 2013Dawn Conway, AMSR-E / AMSR2 TLSCF Lead Software Engineer 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 Current Science Software

3. September 4 -5, 2013Dawn Conway, AMSR-E / AMSR2 TLSCF Lead Software Engineer 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 Current Science Software

4. September 4 -5, 2013Dawn Conway, AMSR-E / AMSR2 TLSCF Lead Software Engineer L2B Land V10 –July 2010 Updates to accommodate LANCE processing –Last algorithm update Version B03, June 2005 Minor modification to the soil moisture QC Current Science Software

5. September 4 -5, 2013Dawn Conway, AMSR-E / AMSR2 TLSCF Lead Software Engineer 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 Current Science Software

6. September 4 -5, 2013Dawn Conway, AMSR-E / AMSR2 TLSCF Lead Software Engineer 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 Current Science Software

7. September 4 -5, 2013Dawn Conway, AMSR-E / AMSR2 TLSCF Lead Software Engineer L3 Land V07 –July 2010 Updates to metadata to accommodate LANCE processing –Last algorithm update Version B03, May 2005 Correct grid projection parameters Current Science Software

8. September 4 -5, 2013Dawn Conway, AMSR-E / AMSR2 TLSCF Lead Software Engineer 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. Current Science Software

9. September 4 -5, 2013Dawn Conway, AMSR-E / AMSR2 TLSCF Lead Software Engineer 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 Current Science Software

10. September 4 -5, 2013Dawn Conway, AMSR-E / AMSR2 TLSCF Lead Software Engineer 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. Current Science Software

11. September 4 -5, 2013Dawn Conway, AMSR-E / AMSR2 TLSCF Lead Software Engineer 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 Current Science Software

12. September 4 -5, 2013Dawn Conway, AMSR-E / AMSR2 TLSCF Lead Software Engineer 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 Tb’s –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 Current Science Software

13. September 4 -5, 2013Dawn Conway, AMSR-E / AMSR2 TLSCF Lead Software Engineer Current Science Software

14. September 4 -5, 2013Dawn Conway, AMSR-E / AMSR2 TLSCF Lead Software Engineer All PGE’s will be updated to include New ISO metadata Updated ECS metadata Documentation New ESDT New Reader L2A Tb’s –Updates? L2 Ocean –Expect update based on new L2A –Significant changes? Delivery date? L2 Rain –Delivered to TLSCF; integration in progress Algorithm Updates

15. September 4 -5, 2013Dawn Conway, AMSR-E / AMSR2 TLSCF Lead Software Engineer 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? Algorithm Updates

16. September 4 -5, 2013Dawn Conway, AMSR-E / AMSR2 TLSCF Lead Software Engineer L3 Snow –Algorithm updates? –Inclusion of SWE research product (Tedesco) as part of the output file available at NSIDC once it is peer reviewed Algorithm Updates

17. September 4 -5, 2013Dawn Conway, AMSR-E / AMSR2 TLSCF Lead Software Engineer 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 –I&T –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 End of Mission Schedule

18. September 4 -5, 2013Dawn Conway, AMSR-E / AMSR2 TLSCF Lead Software Engineer 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 End of Mission Schedule

19. September 4 - 5, 2013Dawn Conway, AMSR-E / AMSR2 TLSCF Lead Software Engineer 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 Continuation of AMSR-E Data Record w/ JAXA AMSR2

20. September 4 - 5, 2013Dawn Conway, AMSR-E / AMSR2 TLSCF Lead Software Engineer ProductAlgorithm TeamAffiliation L2 Ocean Products: wind speed, water vapor, cloud liquid water Kummerow Colorado State University L2 Global Rain RateKummerow, FerraroCSU, NOAA L2 Surface Soil MoistureJackson, EnjokuUSDA, JPL L3 Ocean Products: Daily, Weekly, Monthly KummerowCSU 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 MoistureJackson, EnjokuUSDA, JPL L3 Monthly RainKummerow, FerraroCSU, NOAA Continuation of AMSR-E Data Record w/ JAXA AMSR2

21. September 4 - 5, 2013Dawn Conway, AMSR-E / AMSR2 TLSCF Lead Software Engineer JAXA L1R Brightness Temperatures will be used as input Resolution Channels Footprint 1All Channels6.9 GHz 210.6 – 89.0 GHz10.6 GHz 318.7 – 89.0 GHz23.8 GHz 436.5 – 89.0 GHz36.5 GHz 589.0 GHz Continuation of AMSR-E Data Record w/ JAXA AMSR2

22. September 4 - 5, 2013Dawn Conway, AMSR-E / AMSR2 TLSCF Lead Software Engineer 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 Continuation of AMSR-E Data Record w/ JAXA AMSR2

23. September 4 - 5, 2013Dawn Conway, AMSR-E / AMSR2 TLSCF Lead Software Engineer 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 Continuation of AMSR-E Data Record w/ JAXA AMSR2