The Lightning Imaging Sensor (LIS) Science Team announces the release of version 2.3.2011 of the LIS/OTD Climatology data sets. The LIS/OTD Climatology data sets consist of gridded climatologies of total lightning flash rates seen by the spaceborne Optical Transient Detector (OTD) and Lightning Imaging Sensor (LIS). These data sets can be ordered from the GHRC DAAC using HyDRO.
More information on the LIS/OTD Climatology data sets can be found at https://ghrc.nsstc.nasa.gov/lightning/data/data_lis_otd-climatology.html.
NASA is currently flying an airborne science laboratory above Canadian snowstorms to tackle a difficult challenge facing the upcoming Global Precipitation Measurement (GPM) satellite mission -- measuring snowfall from space. Working with Environment Canada, NASA's GPM Cold-season Precipitation Experiment (GCPEx) is measuring light rain and snow in Ontario from Jan. 17 to Feb. 29.
The AMSR-E SIPS at the GHRC DAAC has implemented incremental daily processing for our AMSR-E near real-time Level 3 daily (Ocean, Land, Snow, Sea Ice ) products. Partial products are created several times per day (currently every 3 hours) using whatever L2 data is available at the time of creation, in order to reduce latency for these products.
The AMSR-E SIPS at the GHRC DAAC would like to announce the expanded availability of AMSR-E near real-time data products through the Land Atmosphere Near-real-time Capability for EOS (LANCE). These near real-time swath and daily products are generally available to registered users within three hours of observation. In order to provide for full system redundancy, the SIPS has implemented a second string ftp server at 
