2015 Monthly average Sea Surface Temperature (SST) anomaly
May 2015 monthly average Sea Surface Temperature (SST) anomaly showing 'the Blob' of record warm temperatures in the Pacific Ocean.
Monthly average Sea Surface Temperature (SST) anomaly
Shown is the May 2015 monthly average Sea Surface Temperature (SST) anomaly showing 'the Blob' of record warm temperatures in the Pacific Ocean. This image was generated by PO.DAAC using NASA's Multi-Scale Ultra-High Resolution (MUR) SST dataset. The image was featured on the cover of a recent Geophysical Research Letters journal in association with an article by Chelle Gentleman, a former PO.DAAC User Working Group member.
Data in Action: Oceans Melting Greenland (OMG)
Why pay attention to Greenland? Greenland’s ice sheets are melting and contributing to global sea level rise. There is enough ice on Greenland that global sea level can rise by 6 meters if it were all to melt. Satellites can tell us how much ice mass loss is occurring, thanks to GRACE, but that does not provide a full picture of the processes that are causing the melt.
Scheduled System Maintenance (Web Portal, Forum, FTP and Web Services)
Please be informed that the following PO.DAAC public services may experience intermittent downtime during the scheduled upgrade window.
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PO.DAAC UAT, PO.DAAC Drive and MCC Tools will be temporarily unavailable due to maintenance on 1/5/2017.
PO.DAAC UAT, PO.DAAC Drive and MCC Tools will be temporarily unavailable due to maintenance on 1/5/2017 (11:30am - 12:30pm PST).
We apologize for the inconvenience.
2016 FALL AGU Meeting
Several PO.DAAC Data Engineers and Scientists presenting at the 2016 Fall AGU Meeting, the largest Earth and space science meeting in the world.
2016 Fall AGU Meeting
PO.DAAC represents at the 2016 Fall AGU Meeting in San Francisco, California.
PO.DAAC Dataset Discovery will be temporarily unavailable due to maintenance on 12/10/2016.
PO.DAAC Dataset Discovery will be temporarily unavailable due to maintenance on 12/10/2016 (00.30 - 5:30). We apologize for the inconvenience.
ISS-RapidScat Decommissioning
2016-12-08
The ISS-RapidScat Project has officially announced the end of operations of the ISS-RapidScat Mission as a result of numerous failed attempts to restore power to the RapidScat from the ISS Columbus module. The root cause of the power outage remains unknown. A robotic survey is currently underway to assess whether the site connecting RapidScat to the Columbus module (known as the SDX interface) is still viable for future payloads. Planning is now underway to determine the course and scheduling for future data reprocessing deliveries to the PO.DAAC.
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Record Texas Flooding Left a “Horseshoe” in the Gulf of Mexico (December, 2016)
SMAP SSS revealed a unique "horseshoe" pattern in the Gulf of Mexico in 2015. This signature was caused by the freshwater plume from the Texas flood, the typical Mississippi River plume, an unusually strong Loop Current and its anticyclonic eddy to the west.