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EARTHDATA DISCOVERY OPEN ACCESS FOR OPEN SCIENCE | FEBRUARY 2024

Tracking Tropical Storms with SmallSats           Getting tropical storm data rapidly helps manage these destructive events. Provisional data are now available from the Time-Resolved Observations of Precipitation structure and storm Intensity with a Constellation of SmallSats (TROPICS) mission.                   Near-hourly observations of temperature, humidity, cloud ice and precipitation horizontal structure data from TROPICS are available through Earthdata Search. Explore TROPICS Data                       Articles

Supporting the Best SWOT Science Careful calibration and validation ensure that the Ka-band Radar Interferometer (KaRIn) instrument aboard the Surface Water and Ocean Topography (SWOT) satellite collects the best science-quality data possible.           Keeping a Close Eye on Distant Volcanoes A NASA-funded online archive is making synthetic aperture radar (SAR) data easier to work with. Researchers used imagery from this archive in first-of-its-kind research measuring volcanic deformation in the remote Aleutian Islands.           New Standard for Using GeoTIFF NASA’s Earth Science Data Systems (ESDS) Program is adopting a new Open Geospatial Consortium (OGC) data standard for using Geographic Tagged Image File Format (GeoTIFF) imagery files in cloud environments.           NASA Takes Pollution Monitoring to New Heights NASA’s Tropospheric Emissions: Monitoring of POllution (TEMPO) is the agency’s first air quality monitoring instrument in geostationary orbit. The mission is part of an international satellite constellation to track global air pollution.           Canada Experiences a Warm End to 2023 The Canadian winter in December was warmer than expected. An analysis of December global surface air temperature and precipitation data shows day and night temperatures almost 12 degrees Fahrenheit warmer than average.                   Webinars & Events

Coming Soon: Explore the Openscapes Earthdata Cloud Cookbook February 28, 2024           NASA Openscapes supports researchers in migrating workflows to the Cloud. This webinar features the Openscapes Earthdata Cloud Cookbook: a compilation of tutorials, workflows, and libraries that help users find, access, and apply Earth science data.                 In Case You Missed It: Discover and Access Earth Science Data Using Earthdata Search This webinar highlights the key features of Earthdata Search and provides demonstrations on how to search for, discover, and access Earth science data.             EMIT Data Tutorial Series March 14, 2024, 3 p.m. ET Learn how to use the methane data products from NASA’s Earth Surface Mineral Dust Source Investigation (EMIT) mission. The workshop features presentations by the EMIT science team and NASA’s Land Processes Distributed Active Archive Center (LP DAAC).             GPM 10-in-10 Webinar Series March 14, 2024, 8 p.m. ET To celebrate the 10-year anniversary of the Global Precipitation Measurement (GPM) mission’s launch, the GPM team is hosting 10 webinars in 2024 focusing on precipitation measurement from space. The second webinar is Earth's Water.                     New Data, Tutorials, & Resources           NASA Earth Science Data Roundup Read summaries of data, products, and resources released by NASA’s Distributed Active Archive Centers (DAACs) over the past month.           Data Tool in Focus: Earthdata Search Earthdata Search enables users to discover and access more than 50,000 NASA Earth science data collections as well as collections from U.S. and international agencies.           earthaccess: Earth Science Data Access Simplified A new Python application programming interface (API) library called earthaccess makes it easy to access NASA Earth science data using only a few lines of Python code.           Updated FIRMS User Interface NASA’s Fire information for Resource Management System (FIRMS) released an expanded User Interface (UI) for both FIRMS Global and FIRMS US/Canada. The updated UI makes it easier to filter and visualize data, among other enhancements.           Updated Science Discovery Engine Interface Discovering data, documentation, and code across the five divisions comprising NASA’s Science Mission Directorate is easier and more efficient thanks to an updated user interface for the Science Discovery Engine.                   Open Science                 Open Science 101 Now Available Open Science 101 is a free public training to equip participants with the knowledge and skills to navigate the principles and practices of open science. Register today and complete the course to receive your NASA Open Science digital badge.                   Connect with NASA Earth Science           NASA Earth science data creators, managers, and providers are scheduled to be at upcoming conferences you might be attending. These are great opportunities to connect with the people behind the data and learn more about how to use these data.           Esri Federal GIS Conference Date: February 13-14 Location: Washington, DC           American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) Annual Meeting Date: February 15-17 Location: Denver, CO           Commodity Classic Date: February 28-March 2 Location: Houston, TX           North Carolina Space Symposium Date: March 22 Location: Raleigh, NC           European Geosciences Union (EGU) General Assembly Date: April 14-19 Location: Vienna, Austria/Virtual           Environmental Data Science Innovation & Inclusion Lab (ESIIL) Innovation Summit Date: May 14-16 Location: Boulder, CO           Association for Advancing Participatory Sciences Annual Conference Date: June 3-6 Location: Virtual           Coordination Group for Meteorological Satellites (CGMS) Plenary Session Date: June 4-6 Location: USA (location to be determined)           International Union of Forest Research Organizations (IUFRO) World Congress Date: June 23-29 Location: Stockholm, Sweden                   Worldview Images of the Week           Prehistoric Lava Flow in New Mexico Sometime in the last 1,000 to 5,000 years, lava began flowing in what is today south-central New Mexico. The Carrizozo volcanic field comprises two flows: the Broken Back flow to the south and the Carrizozo lava flow to the north.           Colorful Blooms in Australia The colors in this image are near-surface concentrations of chlorophyll a off the southern coast of Australia. All phytoplankton contain the chlorophyll pigment, and the concentration of chlorophyll a is used as an index of phytoplankton biomass.           Lithium Mining in Argentina The bright green/cyan features in this Harmonized Landsat and Sentinel-2 image are evaporation ponds, with whitish salars (salt flats) to the north and south of the ponds. Lithium brine is pumped from the salars into the evaporation ponds.           View more Images of the Week                 NASA's Earth Science Data Systems (ESDS) Program oversees the life cycle of NASA’s Earth science data and seeks to maximize the scientific return from missions and experiments.

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