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SWOT Data Access Workshop July 2024 | PO.DAAC / JPL / NASA
Follow along with Dr. Cassie Nickles for a workshop on the Surface Water and Ocean Topography (SWOT) satellite presented at the Hacking Limnology AEMON-J July 2024 Virtual Summit! In this workshop, participants are introduced to SWOT and the various ways…
Lightning with Bebinca in the western Pacific https://cimss.ssec.wisc.edu/satellite-blog/archives/60816
#Typhoon #Pulasan
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Monday, September 23, 2024The PO.DAAC is pleased to announce the completion of the back-fill processing for the version 6.0 SMAP Sea Surface Salinity (SSS) validated datasets from Remote Sensing Systems (RSS), sponsored by the NASA Ocean Salinity Science Team. The datasets now span from May 25, 2015, to the present.DOI: SMAP_RSS_L2_SSS_NRT_V6 (10.5067/SMP60-2SNRT) SMAP_RSS_L2_SSS_V6 (10.5067/SMP60-2SOCS) SMAP_RSS_L3_SSS_SMI_8DAY-RUNNINGMEAN_V6 (10.5067/SMP60-3SPCS) SMAP_RSS_L3_SSS_SMI_MONTHLY_V6 (10.5067/SMP60-3SMCS)Release Announcement:https://podaac.jpl.nasa.gov/announcements/2024-03-26-SMAP-RSS-Sea-Surface-Salinity-V6.0-Validated-Dataset-ReleasePO.DAAC Animation for 8-Day Running Mean V6.0:https://podaac.jpl.nasa.gov/animations/Sea-Surface-Salinity-8-Day-Running-Mean-from-SMAP-RSS-V6.0-2015-2024Comments/Questions? Please contact [email protected] or visit the PO.DAAC on Earthdata Forum.
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RSS SMAP Level 2C Sea Surface Salinity NRT V6.0 Validated Dataset| Physical Oceanography Distributed Active Archive Center (PO.DAAC)
The SMAP-SSS level 2C near real-time (NRT) V6.0 dataset produced by the Remote Sensing Systems (RSS) and sponsored by the NASA Ocean Salinity Science Team, is a validated product that provides near real-time orbital/swath data on sea surface salinity (SSS)…
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Animation: Sea Surface Salinity 8-Day Running Mean from SMAP RSS V6.0 (2015-2024) | PO.DAAC / JPL / NASA
Animation of sea surface salinity from 1 April 2015 to 27 August 2024 based on the 8-day running mean version 6.0 Level 3 NASA Soil Moisture Active Passive (SMAP) dataset from Remote Sensing Systems (RSS). The dataset can be accessed from the PO.DAAC Portal…
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CSPP Geo Software to create LightningCast imagery released https://cimss.ssec.wisc.edu/satellite-blog/archives/60965
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Figure Caption: September 23, 2024 satellite (a) sea surface temperature, (b) sea surface temperature anomalies compared to the 2003-2014 mean, and (c) sea level observations showing the particularly high surface temperatures and subsurface ocean heat in the Gulf of Mexico before the passage of hurricane Helene. (d) Differences in satellite sea surface temperature after (September 27, 2024) and before (September 23, 2024) Hurricane Helene, showing the ‘cold wake’ after the hurricane passage. Hurricane Helene’s advisory track4 is overlaid on the maps (the size of the symbols represents the category of the storm along its trajectory).
Hurricane Helene made landfall in the Big Bend area of the Florida Gulf Coast as a category 4 storm late in the evening of September 26, 20241. Although slowly weakening as it moved north, Helene caused significant damages and casualties across a large portion of the Southeast U.S., including North Carolina, South Carolina, Georgia, Florida, Tennessee and Virginia and will most likely rank as one of the deadliest storms to hit the U.S. in recent times2.The Atlantic hurricane season spans from June 1 to November 30 every year. Tropical Storm Helene formed in the Caribbean Sea on Monday September 23, 2024 and then developed into a category 1 hurricane on September 25, 2024. Helene then rapidly transformed from a category 1 hurricane to a category 4 hurricane in less than a day on September 26, 2024, less than a day before landfall1. This rapid intensification is in part due to very high ocean temperatures across the Gulf of Mexico that act as ‘fuel’ for hurricanes3. The storm moved over the Loop Current, a strong flow of warm water that travels from the Caribbean, loops in the eastern Gulf of Mexico like a horseshoe before moving through the Florida Strait up the Atlantic Ocean. Because the Loop Current transports warm waters from the Tropics, storms moving over it often get enough energy from it to rapidly intensify.
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Figure Caption: September 23, 2024 satellite (a) sea surface temperature, (b) sea surface temperature anomalies compared to the 2003-2014 mean, and (c) sea level observations showing the particularly high surface temperatures and subsurface ocean heat in the Gulf of Mexico before the passage of hurricane Helene. (d) Differences in satellite sea surface temperature after (September 27, 2024) and before (September 23, 2024) Hurricane Helene, showing the ‘cold wake’ after the hurricane passage. Hurricane Helene’s advisory track4 is overlaid on the maps (the size of the symbols represents the category of the storm along its trajectory).
Hurricane Helene made landfall in the Big Bend area of the Florida Gulf Coast as a category 4 storm late in the evening of September 26, 20241. Although slowly weakening as it moved north, Helene caused significant damages and casualties across a large portion of the Southeast U.S., including North Carolina, South Carolina, Georgia, Florida, Tennessee and Virginia and will most likely rank as one of the deadliest storms to hit the U.S. in recent times2.The Atlantic hurricane season spans from June 1 to November 30 every year. Tropical Storm Helene formed in the Caribbean Sea on Monday September 23, 2024 and then developed into a category 1 hurricane on September 25, 2024. Helene then rapidly transformed from a category 1 hurricane to a category 4 hurricane in less than a day on September 26, 2024, less than a day before landfall1. This rapid intensification is in part due to very high ocean temperatures across the Gulf of Mexico that act as ‘fuel’ for hurricanes3. The storm moved over the Loop Current, a strong flow of warm water that travels from the Caribbean, loops in the eastern Gulf of Mexico like a horseshoe before moving through the Florida Strait up the Atlantic Ocean. Because the Loop Current transports warm waters from the Tropics, storms moving over it often get enough energy from it to rapidly intensify.
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Monday, October 7, 2024Animation of daily wind speed measurements from the Compact Ocean Wind Vector Radiometer (COWVR) instrument during its first year of operation. COWVR was developed at the Jet Propulsion Laboratory and is installed on the International Space Station, where it has been collecting measurements since January 2022. COWVR aims to demonstrate new low-cost microwave sensor technologies for weather applications. This animation uses the first public release of the data which includes wind speed, wind direction, and moisture parameters and can be found on NASA’s Physical Oceanography Distributed Active Archive Center (PO.DAAC) at https://doi.org/10.5067/COWVR-STPH8-EDR100. In the future these data may be retired and replaced with updated versions in which case please see https://podaac.jpl.nasa.gov/COWVR-TEMPEST for a list of all data sets including the most recent public versions, as well as information on the COWVR-TEMPEST project.
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COWVR STP-H8 Surface Wind Vector and Column-Integrated Atmospheric Water Measurements Version 10.0| Physical Oceanography Distributed…
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Wednesday, October 9, 2024The PO.DAAC is pleased to announce the first public release of the COWVR-TEMPEST Temperature Sensor Data Records (TSDRs) and Environmental Data Record (EDR), produced by the Jet Propulsion Laboratory. The COWVR (Compact Ocean Wind Vector Radiometer) and TEMPEST (Temporal Experiment for Storms and Tropical Systems) instruments are passive microwave radiometers installed on the International Space Station as part of the Space Test Program - Houston 8 (STP-H8) technology demonstration mission. The project aims to demonstrate a lower-cost, lighter-weight sensor architecture for providing microwave data, with the primary objective of ocean surface vector wind products and tropical cyclone intensity tracking for the Department of Defense. More information regarding the project can be found at PO.DAAC’s project page.An animation of daily global wind speed from COWVR during its first year of operation can be found here .The data sets include Level 1 brightness temperatures (TSDRs) from both instruments, and Level 2 wind vector, column liquid water, and column precipitable water vapor from COWVR (EDR). Data records span January 2022 to the present, with forward streaming planned at least until August of 2025. Both Level 1 and Level 2 data provide data over the satellite tracks/swaths in HDF5 format, with roughly one file per hour (the orbital period of the International Space Station is ~90 minutes). Version 10.0 is the first un-restricted public release, and is named as such to be consistent with the internal version numbering of the project team prior to release. More information can be found in the EDR User Guide and the Data Product Development Documents, linked to on the landing pages.The data sets are described and discoverable via the PO.DAAC data portal.DOI:
COWVR_STPH8_L2_EDR_V10.0 (10.5067/COWVR-STPH8-EDR100)
COWVR_STPH8_L1_TSDR_V10.0 (10.5067/COWVR-STPH8-TSDR100)
TEMPEST_STPH8_L1_TSDR_V10.0 (10.5067/TEMPEST-STPH8-TSDR100)Due to the format of these data files, services such as OPeNDAP and Level 2 Subsetter are not available. However, data can be accessed/downloaded via the virtual directory, Earthdata Search, the podaac-data-subscriber tool, or using s3 endpoints in an AWS cloud environment. Data files for period covering January 2022 - present are actively being reprocessed by the COWVR-TEMPEST Project Team, and are ingested by PO.DAAC as they become available. Therefore not all files are available as of this release announcement, but will be over the next few weeks. Related PO.DAAC Animation:COWVR Level 2 Wind Speed - First Year of Operation (https://podaac.jpl.nasa.gov/animations/COWVR-Level-2-Wind-Speed-First-Year-of-Operation) Citations:Brown, Shannon, Paolo Focardi, Amarit Kitiyakara, Frank Maiwald, Lance Milligan, Oliver Montes, Sharmila Padmanabhan et al. "The COWVR Mission: Demonstrating the capability of a new generation of small satellite weather sensors." In 2017 IEEE Aerospace Conference, pp. 1-7. IEEE, 2017.Brown, Shannon, Paolo Focardi, Amarit Kitiyakara, Frank Maiwald, Oliver Montes, Sharmila Padmanabhan, Richard Redick, D. Russel, and James Wincentsen. "The compact ocean wind vector radiometer: A new class of low-cost conically scanning satellite microwave radiometer system." In Proc. IEEE Geosci. Remote Sens. Soc.(IGRSS), 35th Can. Remote Sens. Soc.(CSRS), pp. 1-3. 2014.Farrar, Spencer, Steven Swadley, Shannon Brown, Eric Simon, Sayak Biswas, David Kunkee, and Kieran Smith. "An Initial on-Orbit Performance Assessment of the Compact Ocean Wind Vector Radiometer (COWVR)." In IGARSS 2024-2024 IEEE International Geoscience and Remote Sensing Symposium, pp. 6277-6281. IEEE, 2024.
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COWVR_STPH8_L2_EDR_V10.0 (10.5067/COWVR-STPH8-EDR100)
COWVR_STPH8_L1_TSDR_V10.0 (10.5067/COWVR-STPH8-TSDR100)
TEMPEST_STPH8_L1_TSDR_V10.0 (10.5067/TEMPEST-STPH8-TSDR100)Due to the format of these data files, services such as OPeNDAP and Level 2 Subsetter are not available. However, data can be accessed/downloaded via the virtual directory, Earthdata Search, the podaac-data-subscriber tool, or using s3 endpoints in an AWS cloud environment. Data files for period covering January 2022 - present are actively being reprocessed by the COWVR-TEMPEST Project Team, and are ingested by PO.DAAC as they become available. Therefore not all files are available as of this release announcement, but will be over the next few weeks. Related PO.DAAC Animation:COWVR Level 2 Wind Speed - First Year of Operation (https://podaac.jpl.nasa.gov/animations/COWVR-Level-2-Wind-Speed-First-Year-of-Operation) Citations:Brown, Shannon, Paolo Focardi, Amarit Kitiyakara, Frank Maiwald, Lance Milligan, Oliver Montes, Sharmila Padmanabhan et al. "The COWVR Mission: Demonstrating the capability of a new generation of small satellite weather sensors." In 2017 IEEE Aerospace Conference, pp. 1-7. IEEE, 2017.Brown, Shannon, Paolo Focardi, Amarit Kitiyakara, Frank Maiwald, Oliver Montes, Sharmila Padmanabhan, Richard Redick, D. Russel, and James Wincentsen. "The compact ocean wind vector radiometer: A new class of low-cost conically scanning satellite microwave radiometer system." In Proc. IEEE Geosci. Remote Sens. Soc.(IGRSS), 35th Can. Remote Sens. Soc.(CSRS), pp. 1-3. 2014.Farrar, Spencer, Steven Swadley, Shannon Brown, Eric Simon, Sayak Biswas, David Kunkee, and Kieran Smith. "An Initial on-Orbit Performance Assessment of the Compact Ocean Wind Vector Radiometer (COWVR)." In IGARSS 2024-2024 IEEE International Geoscience and Remote Sensing Symposium, pp. 6277-6281. IEEE, 2024.
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COWVR Level 2 Wind Speed - First Year of Operation
Animation of daily wind speed measurements from the Compact Ocean Wind Vector Radiometer (COWVR) instrument during its first year of operation. COWVR was developed at the Jet Propulsion Laboratory and is installed on the International Space Station, where…
FrontpageCOWVR Level 2 Wind Speed - First Year of OperationLink: https://podaac.jpl.nasa.gov/animations/COWVR-Level-2-Wind-Speed-First-Year-of-Op…This graphic illustrates the daily wind speed measurements from the Compact Ocean Wind Vector Radiometer (COWVR) instrument during its first year of operation.
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Animation: COWVR Level 2 Wind Speed - First Year of Operation | PO.DAAC / JPL / NASA
Animation of daily wind speed measurements from the Compact Ocean Wind Vector Radiometer (COWVR) instrument during its first year of operation. COWVR was developed at the Jet Propulsion Laboratory and is installed on the International Space Station, where…
Parade of tropical cyclones across the western Pacific
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Parade of tropical cyclones across the western Pacific
Total Precipitable Water fields over the western Pacific on 10/11 November 2024, above, show 4 tropical cyclones at different stages of development across the West Pacific. The screenshot from the Joint Typhoon Warning Center, below, shows the 4 storms: Yinxing…
Man-Yi moves through the Marianas Islands
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Man-Yi moves through the Marianas Islands
Day Night Band imagery from the three JPSS Satellites — NOAA-21 (1515 UTC), Suomi NPP (1537 UTC) and NOAA-20 (1602 UTC) show Tropical Storm Man-Yi as it approached the southern Marianas Islands early in the morning on 13 November 2024 (Guam Time). These images…
#Typhoon #Man-yi
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#Typhoon #Toraji
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#Typhoon #Usagi
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#Typhoon #Yinxing
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Super Typhoon Man-Yi makes landfall on the Philippines island of Luzon
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Super Typhoon Man-Yi makes landfall on the Philippines islan…
2.5-minute JMA Himawari-9 Red Visible (0.64 µm, top) and Clean Infrared Window (10.4 µm, bottom) images, from 0422-0832 UTC on 17 November [click to play animated GIF | MP4]
Eruption of Kanlaon Volcano in the Philippines
JMA Himawari-9 Air Mass RGB images, from 0650-1500 UTC on 9th December [click to play animated gif]
The Kanlaon Volcano in the Philippines erupted at 0703 UTC on 9th December 2024. JMA Himawari-9 Air Mass RGB images from 0650-1500 UTC (above) — created using Geo2Grid — showed the volcanic cloud as it drifted westward across the Sulu Sea. This volcanic cloud was primarily composed of SO2 (along with some ash), and exhibited shades of orange to pink in the RGB images.
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JMA Himawari-9 Air Mass RGB images, from 0650-1500 UTC on 9th December [click to play animated gif]
The Kanlaon Volcano in the Philippines erupted at 0703 UTC on 9th December 2024. JMA Himawari-9 Air Mass RGB images from 0650-1500 UTC (above) — created using Geo2Grid — showed the volcanic cloud as it drifted westward across the Sulu Sea. This volcanic cloud was primarily composed of SO2 (along with some ash), and exhibited shades of orange to pink in the RGB images.
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