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NASA Earth Science Data Roundup: June 2023

A summary of datasets, products, and news released by NASA’s Distributed Active Archive Centers (DAACs) in May 2023.
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This logo for the Convective Processes Experiment (CPEX), which took place in 2017, features light blue plane flying over a dark blue globe containing white, gray, and blue clouds. The plane is emitting a beam, meant to symbolize a sensor taking a measurement of the clouds below.

Convective Processes Experiment—Cabo Verde Campaign Airborne Data Released

The Convective Processes Experiment—Cabo Verde (CPEX-CV) campaign took place in September 2022 and operated out of Sal, an island in Cabo Verde off the coast of West Africa. The campaign’s goal was to investigate atmospheric dynamics, marine boundary layer properties, convection, the Saharan Air Layer, and their interactions across various spatial scales to improve the understanding and predictability of process-level lifecycles in the tropical East Atlantic region. Measurements from CPEX-CV will assist in moving forward from previous CPEX and CPEX-Aerosol & Winds missions, the calibration and validation of satellite measurements, and the deployment of airborne sensors.

CPEX-CV campaign data access and more information

This screen capture from the Landslide Hazard Assessment for Situational Awareness shows an unidentified area on Earth's surface with high landslide potential along with satellite‐based precipitation estimates from Global Precipitation Measurement (GPM) mission. The areas of precipitation in this image appear in blue, yellow, orange, and red. The brighter the color, the greater the intensity of the precipitation.

A map of potentially hazardous areas from NASA’s Landslide Hazard Assessment Model (LHASA) in July 2015 for western Myanmar. Red indicates the highest hazard, dark blue indicates the lowest hazard. Credit: NASA's GES DISC.

This GLanCE Enhanced Vegetation Index amplitude image, which was acquired over Montrose, Colorado on July 1, 2004, shows dense, dark green vegetation in a mountainous area with rivers and lakes.

A GLanCE Enhanced Vegetation Index amplitude image, acquired over Montrose, Colorado on July 1, 2004. Credit: NASA's LP DAAC.

National Snow and Ice Data Center DAAC (NSIDC DAAC)

Version 6 ATLAS/ICESat-2 Level-3A Sea Ice Height, Freeboard Quick Look and Along Track Inland Surface Water Data Quick Look Datasets

Version 6 of these three expedited latency datasets are now available through NASA's NSIDC DAAC, and are part of NASA's Land, Atmosphere Near real-time Capability for EOS (LANCE).

  • Sea Ice Height Quick Look and Sea Ice Freeboard Quick Look Version 6 Beginning May 25, 2023, the sea ice concentration data used in processing this dataset were switched from AMSR-E/AMSR2 Unified Level 3 Daily 12.5 km Brightness Temperatures, Sea Ice Concentration, Motion and Snow Depth Polar Grids, Version 1 to Near-Real-Time NOAA/NSIDC Climate Data Record of Passive Microwave Sea Ice Concentration, Version 2 Sea Ice Height and Freeboard data access and more information
  • Along Track Inland Surface Water Quick Look Version 6 This dataset contains along-track surface water products for inland water bodies, including water surface height and subsurface signal attenuation Along Track Inland Surface Water data access and more information
This image shows a map of Mexico with areas of green that represent estimates of tree cover in the country. To the left of the map is a legend with blocks of color that correspond to the estimates. Whiter areas have fewer trees where the areas of dark green have the most tree cover.

The Tree Cover Estimates at 30 m Resolution for Mexico, 2016-2018 dataset provides national-scale percent tree cover estimates. Darker green colors on the map indicate areas of greater tree cover. Credit: NASA's ORNL DAAC.

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Goddard Earth Sciences Data and Information Services Center (GES DISC)
Global Hydrometeorology Resource Center DAAC (GHRC DAAC)
Level 1 and Atmosphere Archive and Distribution System DAAC (LAADS DAAC)
Land Processes DAAC (LP DAAC)
National Snow and Ice Data Center DAAC (NSIDC DAAC)
Oak Ridge National Laboratory DAAC (ORNL DAAC)
Physical Oceanography DAAC (PO.DAAC)