Release 1.4.8

New Features

• Added MODIS Brightness Temperature (Band 31) Day and Night layers and VIIRS Nighttime imagery (Day/Night Band, Enhanced Near Constant Contrast) layer to Sea and Lake Ice Events.
• Added MODIS L1B Calibrated Radiances as the data download option for MODIS Brightness Temperature layers.

Updates

• Removed SEDAC Mangrove forest layer from Polar views.
• Fixed polar image download requests for dates earlier than 2013/01/01.

Release 1.4.7

New Features

• Added layer descriptions to the active layers sidebar, polar layers list, and add layer search rows
• Added AMSRU2 Soil Moisture layers (which replaced AMSR2 Soil Moisture layers)
• Added SAC-D/Aquarius Soil Moisture layer description
• Added MERRA-2 Surface Skin Temperature and Surface Pressure layer descriptions
• Several layers are now being forward processed in GIBS and are available in Worldview up to present day. These include MISR Monthly layers, MOPITT Daily and Monthly Carbon Monoxide layers, MERRA-2 Monthly layers, NLDAS Monthly layers and OMI AOD, Ozone and Nitrogen Dioxide Daily layers.

Updates

• Added node version warnings on npm i #193
• Removed node_modules directory from repository
• Removed release/gc directory from options repository
• Improved interoperability with external Web Map Tile Service (WMTS) servers

Release 1.4.6

Updates

• Reversed the order of tracked event dates in the Events feed so that the most recent date appears first.
• Added mockEvents, mockCategories, and mockSources parameters. See Testing for more information.
• Fixed issue with GeoTIFF image download where the GeoTIFFs were being incorrectly parsed by GIS clients.
• Added layer description for Daymet Minimum and Maximum Air Temperature.
• Added relevant layers to sea ice and snow cover EONet categories for the Events feed.
• Various layer title, data download and categorization updates.
• Various bug fixes.

Version 1.4.5

Updates

• Added layer descriptions for MOPITT Carbon Monoxide; TRMM/LIS and OrbView/OTD Lightning Flashes and Lightning Flash Rate; AMSR2 Soil Moisture; RSS SSM/I Wind Speed over Ice-Free Oceans and Precipitable Water over Ice-Free Oceans; DMSP SSMI and SSMIS Cloud Liquid Water over Oceans, Rain Rate over Oceans, Water Vapor over Oceans, Wind Speed over Oceans.
• Changed layer name and GIBS identifier from OMI Nitric Oxide to OMI Nitrogen Dioxide
• Changed layer name for NLDAS Soil Moisture layers to include depth in title
• Various improvements to build processes

Version 1.4.4

New Features

• Added a Notification module to provide notifications such as outages, planned maintenance, and new releases.
• Certain multi-day imagery layers (e.g. MODIS Monthly Sea Surface Temperature, Black Marble 2012 & 2016, GLDAS Monthly Total Precipitation Rate layers, and many more layers) can now be viewed over the dateline/anti-meridian. This allows for an unbroken view of the Pacific Ocean.

Known Issues

• Custom color palettes do not work in Internet Explorer
• On iOS and Android, layers cannot be reordered

Version 1.4.3

New Features

• Aquarius Sea Surface Salinity (Daily, 7-Day Snapshot, 7-Day Running Mean, Monthly, 3 Month) and Wind Speed (Daily and 7-Day Snapshot) layers
• MODIS Sea Surface Temperature (4km and 9km, Thermal and Mid-Infrared) Daily, 8 Day, Monthly and Annual layers
• Cross-Calibrated Multi-Platform Wind Speed (Meridional, Scalar and Zonal) Monthly layers

Updates

• Removed MERRA Surface Skin Temperature and Surface Pressure layers (use MERRA-2 layers instead)
• Date handling fix for yearly and monthly animations

Known Issues

• Custom color palettes do not work in Internet Explorer
• On iOS and Android, layers cannot be reordered

Version 1.4.2

New Features

• Precipitable Water over Ice-Free Oceans and Wind Speed over Ice-Free Oceans (RSS) Monthly layers
• SSMI Sea Ice Concentration Daily layer
• MEaSUREs Ice Velocity for Greenland and Antarctica Daily layers
• SSMIS Sea Ice Concentration and Snow Extent Daily layer
• MODIS Normalized Snow Difference Index and Ice Surface Temperature Daily layers
• MISR Aerosol Optical Depth, Cloud Stereo Height, Directional Hemispherical Reflectance, NDVI, Radiance, and Albedo Monthly layers
• VIIRS Black Marble Nighttime Lights 2012 and 2016 layers

Updates

• Fixed natural events feature in internet explorer
• Improved colors of natural event Icons
• Fixed certain data download queries to CMR so that data from only the selected date is returned
• Changed logo format from PNG to SVG

Known Issues

• Custom color palettes do not work in Internet Explorer
• On iOS and Android, layers cannot be reordered

Version 1.4.1

New Features

• Daily SMAP Enhanced versions of Passive Brightness Temperature and Passive Soil Moisture, Freeze/Thaw layers

Updates

• Polar projection permalink issue patch

Known Issues

• Events and custom color palettes do not work in Internet Explorer
• On iOS and Android, layers cannot be reordered

Version 1.4.0

New Features

• Certain imagery layers (e.g. MODIS or VIIRS Corrected Reflectance and some other daytime layers) can now be viewed over the dateline/anti-meridian for the day prior to and after the current day. This allows for an unbroken view of the Pacific Ocean as observed by the satellites.
• Users can now view the data value under the cursor in the respective layer's legend/color bar.
• A marker or bounding box has been added to illustrate an event’s location shown in the Events feed.
• Icons have been added to differentiate between natural event categories in the Events feed.
• Auto-disable function which prevents a layer from being turned on if there is no imagery available for that date.
• Daymet Minimum and Maximum Air Temperature layers added

Updates

• Migrated to OpenLayers 4 mapping library

Known Issues

• Events and custom color palettes do not work in Internet Explorer
• On iOS and Android, layers cannot be reordered

Release 1.3.6

Version 1.3.6

New Features

• Monthly MERRA and MERRA 2 Surface Skin Temperature and Surface Pressure layers
• Monthly GLDAS Total Precipitation Rate, Air Temperature, Soil Moisture and NLDAS Precipitation Total, Air Temperature and Soil Moisture layers
• Daily OMI UV Erythemal Daily Dose, Daily Rate and UV Index layers
• Weekly Aquarius Soil Moisture layers

Updates

• Corrected end dates of non-daily layers

Known Issues

• Permalinks do not currently link directly to events or the product picker state
• Custom color palettes are not supported on Internet Explorer or on Safari 5 and earlier.
• On iOS and Android, layers cannot be reordered
• WMS based layers (Population Density and Global Labels) can no longer be displayed properly in the older arctic projection (EPSG:3995).
• A mixed content warning may be displayed when using layers from external servers not using https.