April 17, 2012

Tellus Release 5.0
 
The GRACE project has released a new version of Level 2/spherical harmonic data, Release 5.0 (RL05).  As the new RL05 data become available, the Tellus mass grids will be reprocessed with it.  It will take some time for the GRACE project to complete reprocessing the entire time series so the Tellus Release 4 (RL04) and RL05 will be distributed simultaneously. Thus users will need to change any bookmarks they may have as there are now 2 folders in each mass grid directory, RL04 and RL05. The RL05 folder will be populated as data become available. 
 
Data are now available at:
Ocean mass grids RL04 ftp://podaac.jpl.nasa.gov/allData/tellus/L3/ocean_mass/RL04/
Ocean mass grids RL05 ftp://podaac.jpl.nasa.gov/allData/tellus/L3/ocean_mass/RL05/
 
EOFR Ocean mass grids RL04 ftp://podaac.jpl.nasa.gov/allData/tellus/L3/ocean_mass_eofr/RL04/
EOFR Ocean mass grids RL05 ftp://podaac.jpl.nasa.gov/allData/tellus/L3/ocean_mass_eofr/RL05/ (data not yet available)
 
Land water mass grids RL04 ftp://podaac.jpl.nasa.gov/allData/tellus/L3/land_mass/RL04/
Land water mass grids RL05 ftp://podaac.jpl.nasa.gov/allData/tellus/L3/land_mass/RL05/ (data not yet available) 
 
For more information on the Tellus mass grids or other Tellus datasets please visit 
http://podaac.jpl.nasa.gov/datasetlist?ids=Collections&values=TELLUS or http://grace.jpl.nasa.gov