The Global Hydrometeorology Resource Center (GHRC) DAAC had the opportunity to send several individuals to the Earth Science Data System (ESDS) working group meeting in Baltimore, Maryland. GHRC was able to highlight the Earthdata Pub activities (many thanks to Daine Wright from ORNL presenting!) and cloud-based user services. Just as importantly, this meeting marked the continued increase in face-to-face meetings since COVID-19. Numerous conversations on potential collaborations and meeting other DAAC colleagues took place. The end of the week was the DAAC Managers meeting at Goddard Space Flight Center. This was the first opportunity for GHRC’s new DAAC Manager, Dr. Aaron Kaulfus, to attend.
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The Global Hydrometeorology Resource Center (GHRC) DAAC scientist traveled to participate in the final week of the Lake Effect Electrification (LEE) field campaign in Oswego, New York. Serving as one of the PIs for this National Science Foundation funded project, he supported the balloon team responsible for launching electric field mills and particle imagers into the snow bands. The LEE campaign running from November 2022 through the first week of February 2023 was designed to investigate the electrification characteristics of lake effect snowstorms coming off of Lake Ontario. There is particular interest with this in the Tug Hill region east of Lake Ontario, which supports a large wind farm and a better understanding of which snow bands will generate lightning will help protect the wind turbines. From the DAAC perspective, the LEE campaign has ties to the Investigation of Microphysics and Precipitation for Atlantic Coast-Threatening Snowstorms (IMPACTS) campaign. While the LEE data will be archived by the National Science Foundation, GHRC (hosting IMPACTS) is using this as an opportunity to discuss potential ways to enable cross-agency data referencing.
The Global Hydrometeorology Resource Center (GHRC) DAAC attended the annual American Meteorological Society conference in Denver, Colorado from January 9-12. GHRC members Navaneeth Selvarag, Dr. Geoffrey Stano, and DAAC Manager Dr. Aaron Kaulfus attended, presented, and chaired sessions. This was the first time since 2020 that GHRC had been able to attend in person. The theme of GHRC’s presentations focused on cloud-based user services. This ranged from technical discussions to create cloud-optimized data to recent developments, such as the lightning dashboard. The conference also provided an excellent opportunity to have multiple side meetings and discussions. Several potential collaborations may arise from these discussions and will be discussed in-depth at a later date pending their status. Below are the presentations that incorporated GHRC work or involved GHRC personnel.
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Cloud-Based User Services at the Global Hydrometeorology Resource Center DAAC
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Incorporating Cloud Optimized Data Formats into the Data Analysis and Archival Workflow
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Identifying Improvements to Airborne and Field Data Stewardship from Data User and Producer Needs
Leigh Sinclair and Geoffrey Stano from the NASA Global Hydrometeorology Resource Center (GHRC) DAAC attended the American Geophysical Union (AGU) Fall Meeting in Chicago, Illinois from December 12, 2022 through December 16, 2022. Stano participated in an oral presentation titled ‘A Cloud-Based, Open-Source System for Data Analysis and Exploration’ and a poster presentation titled ‘Supporting User Service with Cloud-Based Technologies at the GHRC DAAC’, while Sinclair participated in an oral presentation titled ‘Transitioning to the Cloud Supporting NASA’s DAACs and FAIR Principles’. In addition, Sinclair and Stano participated in many side meetings, including with the Alaska Satellite Facility (ASF) DAAC and GHRC’s UWG member, Jordan Bell, about collaborating as a Science Enabling Center (SEC) and looking at ASF’s tool OpenSAR. The GHRC DAAC also met with Deborah Smith from the Airborne Data Management Group (ADMG) regarding the new datasets coming in, and Sara Lubkin from ESDIS about SECs.
The Global Hydrometeorology Resource Center (GHRC) DAAC hosted its User Working Group (UWG) meeting October 19-20. October 19 was open to all and included information from GHRC on the year’s activities, demonstrations, and feedback from the user working group. The 20th was the closed door session for just the UWG members and their initial feedback. Overall feedback from the UWG members and attendees was positive. GHRC was complimented for its efforts over the past year, ranging from the cloud transition, collaborations with the Atmospheric Science Data Center, and plans for serving as a science enabling center. The UWG provided a number of excellent suggestions and these will be incorporated into the upcoming 2023 work plan.
