Version 6 of the new limb products is now available on the ICON FTP server and the SPDF website. A draft version of the ICON CMAD is now available on the ICON website that includes detailed descriptions of the O/N₂ products, both limb and disk.  Documentation for these products is available through http links (limb and disk) and on the ICON FTP server.

If you are unfamiliar with the Calibration, Measurement, and Algorithms Document, this provides a broad view of the calibration activites and details of the algorithms as they have been updated by the product owners and implemented in the ICON Science Data Center.

This limb product compares well to the disk product that has provided O/N2 for ICON since 2020. When compared, the two retrievals show differences that can be represented by a single offset value, as they co-vary in response to actual changes in O/N2. As with all ICON products, the scientific need is for precision and both of these products meet the mission requirements.

There is an article on the NASA website summarizing ICON's ionospheric discoveries. After the disappointing loss of the observatory in its first extended mission, it is great to have this recognition. Please have a look!

The trend at scientific Journals is to request/require DOIs be provided with all data products used in submitted articles. For ICON, the DOIs are as follows and should be used when acknowledging data sources in published research. These are noted in the updated ICON Rules of the Road. The URLs link to the SPASE website

AGU’s Fall Meeting is the largest international Earth and space science meeting in the world. This year's theme is WIDE. OPEN. SCIENCE.

Click "read more" to see 2023 ICON-related presentations.

A data browser developed by Dr. Yen-Jung Wu here at SSL allows you to make plots of ICON data very quickly, and once the data are plotted provides a quick link to the file at the NASA repository.