Update #1: Termination of AMSR2 Sea Ice GRIB2 Product has been rescheduled to March 22, 2021.

Topic: Termination of AMSR2 Sea Ice GRIB2 Product

Date/Time Issued: March 3, 2021 2015 UTC

Product(s) or Data Impacted:  AMSR2 Sea Ice Product in GRIB2 format

Date/Time of Initial Impact:  March 22, 2021 at 1500 UTC

Date/Time of Expected End: N/A

Length of Outage:   N/A

Details/Specifics of Change: OSPO will stop the production of AMSR2 Sea Ice GRIB2 on March 22, 2021. 

The AMSR2 Sea Ice GRIB2 shorname and files names on PDA are:

   shortname                                                              file name

    AMSR2_SEAICE_NH_GRIB2                  AMSR2-SEAICE-NH%GW1%grib2

    AMSR2_SEAICE_SH_GRIB2                  AMSR2-SEAICE-SH%GW1%grib2

OSPO will continue to provide AMSR2 Sea Ice products in netCDF format.

Please contact OSPO Precipitation PAL  Liqun Ma(liqun.ma@noaa.gov) as soon as possible if you have any questions or concerns.

Contact Information for Further Information: ESPC Operations at ESPCOperations@noaa.gov and 301-817-3880

Web Site(s) for applicable information: N/A