MODIS/Aqua reprocessing completed

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MODIS/Aqua reprocessing completed

by genecarlfeldman » Mon May 24, 2004 1:33 pm America/New_York

good afternoon,

we are very happy to announce that the complete mission reprocessing of the modis/aqua data set that we started on friday afternoon, may 14th has been completed and all products are available for download via the ocean color web.  for those of you who keep track of these things, the effective rate for this reprocessing was 90 days of data processed per day.  this rate is in addition to maintaining the current operational processing of the recent modis and seawifs data. analysis of the results will continue and further documentation will be added to the validation section of the ocean color web as it is completed.

in response to a number of requests that we have gotten, we have just added a new product for aqua/modis data - a quicklook global daily 4 and 9 kilometer level-3 image and hdf files for the current standard product set (chlorophyll, sea surface temperature, diffuse attenuation, nLw at 551 nm, aerosol optical thickness and angstrom coefficient).

these files are produced each morning (generally ready by 6:00ameastern time) and will include all the data received on the previous day from the real-time feed that we have.  consequently, there may be some small number of files that are missing from the quick look product but they should be filled by the time we produce the refined daily product 7-10 days after acquisition.  all the files are available for download from the level-3 browser:

https://oceancolor.gsfc.nasa.gov/l3/

or via ftp from:

ftp://oceans.gsfc.nasa.gov/Aqua_SMI/Daily/

finally, we have added a link to the ioccg list of employment opportunities on the ocean color web homepage.  there is a current listing for:

Post-graduate Position in Atmosphere/Ocean Remote Sensing
Location: University of California at Santa Barbara, USA

regards for now,
gene

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