The NASA Land Atmosphere Near real-time Capability for EOS (LANCE) AMSR2 Processing Center co-located with the Global Hydrology Resource Center Distributed Active Archive Center (GHRC DAAC) in Huntsville, Alabama would like to announce the availability of three new Version 1 near real-time (NRT) AMSR2 Daily Sea Ice datasets. The Version 1 NRT datasets use the AMSR-U2 product generation algorithm with slight modifications for NRT product generation, the same algorithm that is used to generation the standard, science quality, data that is available at the NSIDC DAAC. These datasets are generated incrementally in near real-time, as data are acquired from the AMSR2 instrument on the Japanese Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA) GCOM-W1 satellite. These data are available at: lance.nsstc.nasa.gov

Hurricane Florence, Tropical Storm Isaac, and Hurricane Helene are clearly visible in Worldview using LANCE NRT AMSR2 RainOcean data. Please visit Worldview to follow Hurricane Florence and other storms using NRT AMSR2 data.