Dr. Sara Graves represented the GHRC at the 9th meeting of the National Academy of Science’s Board on Research Data and Information (BRDI), held in Washington, DC, on September 23-24. This meeting included a symposium on “Privacy in a Big Data World.”
Sherry Harrison represented the GHRC at the annual DAAC User Services Working Group (USWG) Technical Interchange Meeting in Hampton, VA, September 17-19, 2013. The annual meeting was hosted by the ASDC at the NASA Langley Research Center. As USWG Chair for FY2013, Ms. Harrison led meeting coordination activities. At the meeting, leadership of the USWG for FY2014 was passed on to Jim Acker of GES DISC (Chair) and Molly McAllister of NSIDC DAAC (Co-Chair).
GHRC published the GPM Ground Validation Environment Canada (EC) Wind Profiler GCPEx dataset, which provides post-processed consensus winds and daily quick look plots from the Vaisala Wind Profiler LAP 3000. The daily plots depict wind information from the profiler and from Global Environmental Multiscale (GEM) model data. The LAP 3000 is a pulsed Doppler radar that operates in clean air, reporting data from the atmosphere 3 kilometers or more above ground level. The wind profiler data was collected January 15, 2012 through March 1, 2012 for the GPM Cold-season Precipitation Experiment (GCPEx) at Environment Canada’s Centre for Atmospheric Research Experiments (CARE) in Ontario, Canada.
GHRC published guide document for the GPM Ground Validation Flight Summaries and Flight Tracks Imagery MC3E dataset. This dataset includes sonde maps, a radar animation, parameter versus time charts, radar track graphs, and a summary including aircraft and instrument operational times. The dataset is available as an individual dataset, and it is automatically distributed when a user orders navigation datasets for either the University of North Dakota Citation or the NASA- ER-2.
Drs. Sara Graves and Rahul Ramachandran represented GHRC at the second plenary meeting of the Research Data Alliance (RDA), held September 16-18 at the National Academy of Sciences in Washington, DC. RDA provides the framework to accelerate international data-driven innovation and discovery by facilitating research data sharing and exchange, use and re-use, standards harmonization, and discoverability, through the development and adoption of infrastructure, policy and practice. Dr. Graves was an invited presenter in the Plenary session titled “Building Global Partnerships: the perspective of affiliate organizations” in her role as the Secretary General of CODATA. Dr. Ramachandran led the Big Data Analytics Interest Group sessions as a co-chair. The Big Data Analytics (BDA) Interest Group seeks to develop community based recommendations on feasible data analytics approaches to address scientific community needs related to utilizing large quantities of data.
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