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Here is the pertinent information from our NLDAS/GLDAS support staff: "The entire GLDAS-1 collection from January 1979 through March 2020 has been removed from the GES DISC system on June 30, 2020. With the upgraded Land Surface Models (LSMs) and updated forcing data sets, the GLDAS-2.1 product...

For several years, the NASA GES DISC has been conducting data recovery efforts for data from instruments on the Nimbus satellite missions. Nimbus-era Satellite Data Recovery at the NASA GES DISC Learn more about the pioneering Earth-observing Nimbus missions here: Nimbus: NASA Remembers First Earth ...

Learn more about the NASA Aqua satellite mission on the home page:

https://aqua.nasa.gov/

Hello, For data variables pertaining to air quality, windspeed, and precipitation, I would recommend starting with our Giovanni system, https://giovanni.gsfc.nasa.gov . For the before/after images, you could try Landsat imagery at the Land Processes DAAC for the highest resolution. I do not know the...

Chris,

We will check with our GLDAS/NLDAS data specialists and reply to you promptly.

Webinar announcement: A Clearer View of the Haze – Using NASA GES DISC Data Tools to Examine the June 2020 Sahara Dust Event Join us as we explore how GES DISC tools and data products can augment ongoing vital research on the dynamics of dust transport in Earth’s atmosphere. We will investigate the ...

Hello, Regarding your parameters: air temperature (2m) -- use AIRS daily data, you can specify the pressure level(s) or use the "Air temperature at surface" data product; relative humidity (2m) -- use AIRS daily data, you can specify the pressure level(s); precipitation in last 24h -- use ...

Dear Mursel, This How-To Document may be of use to you. I do not think you can subset with country/state shapefiles with this method, but it does allow definition of a region with lat/lon coordinates. https://disc.gsfc.nasa.gov/information/howto?keywords=API&title=How%20to%20Use%20the%20Web%20Se...

From the Precipitation Processing System (PPS) at Goddard Space Flight Center: "Dear Science User, The GPM spacecraft experienced an anomaly that caused an interruption of all science instrument data beginning on 8/19/2020 around 12:00 UT. GMI instrument data restarted collection on 8/26/2020 a...

Regarding GPM: On August 19, 2020 at approximately 11 UTC, the GPM Mission Operations Center (MOC) stopped receiving data from the satellite. While the satellite and the instruments are healthy, the Flight Operations Team (FOT) is working to safely reestablish nominal operations. Return to data coll...