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PPS received replacement GPM Ka/Ku L1B products from JAXA and will reprocess the affected data including Level 2 and 3 data. If you have already obtained products with orbit# 20566 from our archive or through a standing order, etc., please discard and use the replacement products. PPS has replaced the following GPM Ka/Ku L1B data: GPMCOR_KAR_1710111422_1555_020566_1BS_DAB_05A.h5 GPMCOR_KUR_1710111422_1555_020566_1BS_DUB_05A.h5 PPS will reprocess the affected downstream L2/L3 products shortly. 2AKa 2A.GPM.Ka.V7-20170308.20171011-S142252-E155525.020566.V05A.HDF5 2AKu 2A.GPM.Ku.V7-20170308

On Monday October 9, 2017 at 1100 AM AST (1500 UTC) tropical depression seventeen (TD17) was upgraded to tropical storm Ophelia. The tropical storm is located over the open waters of the the eastern Atlantic southwest of the Azores. The GPM core observatory satellite had a good view of tropical storm Ophelia on October 10, 2017 at 2:46 PM AST (1846 UTC). GPM's Microwave Imager (GMI) and Dual-Frequency Precipitation Radar (DPR) revealed that the storm was organized but most of the rainfall in the storm was only of light to moderate intensity. The area covered by GPM's 151.9 mile wide (245 km)

The GPM core observatory satellite passed above powerful thunderstorms within land falling hurricane Nate on October 8, 2017 at 4:41 AM EDT (0841 UTC). GPM's Dual-Frequency Precipitation Radar (DPR) found that a few storms over southwestern Alabama were dropping rain at the extreme rate of greater than 4 inches (102 mm) per hour. This 3-D slice by GPM's radar (DPR Ku Band) shows the structure of precipitation within the powerful thunderstorms near the center of hurricane Nate. A few thunderstorms over Alabama were found by GPM's radar to have tops reaching heights above 10.5 miles (17 km).

Starting with the first orbit of 9 October 2017, the MHS data from NOAA-19 began displaying substantial artifacts. After the orbit crossing 00 UTC 10 October, the NOAA-19 data have been embargoed from Early and Late IMERG, although it took until 03 UTC for all artifacts to age off the morphing. At this point, Early and Late IMERG appear nominal, except they lack the sampling that NOAA-19 provides.

The GPM core observatory satellite passed above forming tropical storm Nate (TD16) on October 5, 2017 at 5:46 AM EDT (0946 UTC). TD16 was located in the western Caribbean near the coast of Nicaragua with winds of about 34.5 mph (30 kts). Data received by GPM's Microwave Imager (GMI) and Dual-Frequency Precipitation Radar (DPR) shows bands of rain producing heavy rainfall East of TD16's center of circulation. Downpours in the Caribbean Sea East of Nicaragua were measured by GPM's Radar (DPR Ku Band) dropping rain at a rate of over 6.4 inches (162 mm) per hour. This close-up 3-d cross section

With the completion of the TRMM version 8 level 1 processing, PPS will start to process the TRMM era GPM constellation level 1 data on Friday October 6, 2017. Similar to the TRMM version 8 level 1 product, all level 1 constellation products will be produced as GPM version V05, all products are in HDF5 format, all product names will use the GPM naming convention and the produced data will appear both in STORM: https://storm.pps.eosdis.nasa.gov/storm/ and on "arthurhou": ftp://arthurhou.pps.eosdis.nasa.gov/ PPS will reprocess the entire TRMM era constellation data. All users are encouraged to

Starting with data date October 01, 2017, the Level 2-Level 3 GPROF data for METOPA, METOPB, NOAA18, NOAA19 (MHS) and NPP ATMS partner products will be running new code and produced as product version V05C. These code changes are relatively minor and primarily affect the outer edges of the swath. Processing of the V05C data will start tomorrow on Wednesday October 04, 2017. Notable changes include : ------------------------------------------- The V05C GPROF of the Cross-track sensors allows for more usable pixels on the outside of the MHS and ATMS scans as compared to the previous version. For

PPS received new GPM Ka L1B products (2017-09-29) for orbit 20378 from JAXA and reprocessed the affected data. If you have obtained any of these products from our archive or through a Standing Order, etc., please discard these and use the replacement products. The following files and corresponding browse products will be replaced 2AKa 2A.GPM.Ka.V7-20170308.20170929-S121703-E134937.020378.V05A.HDF5 2ADPR 2A.GPM.DPR.V7-20170308.20170929-S121703-E134937.020378.V05A.HDF5 2BCMB 2B.GPM.DPRGMI.CORRA2016.20170929-S121703-E134937.020378.V05A.HDF5 2HCSH 2B.GPM.DPRGMI.2HCSHv3-1.20170929-S121703-E134937

PPS is releasing version 3.80.29 build of the PPS TKIO toolkit for GPM Version 5 products and TRMM Version 8 data products This can be found at: ftp://gpmweb2.pps.eosdis.nasa.gov/pub/PPStoolkit/GPM/tkio-3.80.29/ The direct link to the tar file can be accessed here: ftp://gpmweb2.pps.eosdis.nasa.gov/pub/PPStoolkit/GPM/tkio-3.80.29/tkio-… The most recent changes are in metadata: 3GSLHT cu3cw 3HSLHT cu3cw Other changes are noted in the release notes documents in the FTP directory. Please contact us for any questions.