GHRC News

IFloodS Field Campaign Begins Initial Phase

The initial phase of the Iowa Flood Studies field campaign has begun. IFloodS is the first of several hydrology-oriented field efforts that the GPM Ground Validation (GV) program is conducting. GHRC is providing a collaboration portal for the field campaign team to exchange data and information including instrument status, mission science reports, weather forecasts and preliminary science data. We have already begun collecting instrument data and model output for the region. More instruments will come online throughout April in preparation for the official start of the campaign on May 1. During the field campaign, access to the collaboration portal and quicklook data is restricted to team members. We expect to begin receiving and publishing quality controlled data products from the mission in approximately six months.

GCPEX Meteorological Tower Environment Canada Dataset Released

GHRC has released the GPM Ground Validation Meteorological Tower Environment Canada GCPEx dataset as part of the GPM Cold-season Precipitation Experiment (GCPEx) where data was gathered over the Ontario region of Canada in 2012 from Jan 15 through March 1. This dataset provides temperature, relative humidity, 10m winds, pressure and solar radiation data collected by a suite of standard meteorological instruments attached to a 10m met tower. The observation station was assembled by Automated Transportable Meteorological Observation Station (ATMOS). Browse images are available on-line.

GHRC Registered in Thomson Reuters, Data Citation Index

The Global Hydrology Resource Center (GHRC) DAAC and data are now registered in Thomson Reuters’ Data Citation Index. The Data Citation Index (DCI) is part of Thomson Reuters’ Web of Knowledge, a multi-disciplinary index of science research publications. The goal of the DCI is to support search and discovery of scientific research data and links to the published literature with appropriate citation metrics. DCI, like the Web of Knowledge in general, is a resource that institutions subscribe to, and is available to those affiliated with subscribing institutions.

RSS Monthly 1-deg Microwave Total Precipitable Water netCDF Dataset Published

GHRC has published the RSS Monthly 1-deg Microwave Total Precipitable Water netCDF dataset. This Total Precipitable Water dataset provides http://dx.doi.org/10.5067/MEASURES/MULTIPLE/WATER_VAPOR/DATA302 1 degree gridded data for the monthly means of total precipitable water, a 20 year climatology file, and a cumulative file with data from 1988 to the current month. This includes the anomalies for global mean precipitable water over Ice Free Oceans (60S to 60N) and the tropical mean for 20S to 20N. Satellite instruments used in calculating the means are the SSMI (DMSP-F8, 10, 11, 13, 14, 15) and SSMIS (16, 17), AMSR-E (Aqua) and Windsat (Coriolis). This dataset is provided in both netCDF-3 and netCDF-4 formatted files.

GHRC Seeks to Improve Search Engine Visibility

For better search engine visibility GHRC has started adding the meta description tag to its existing dataset guides. As new guides are being written the description tag will be included. Guides have also been examined for compliance with Section 508 of the US Rehabilitation Act. As new guides are being written, additional code is being added to increase 508 compliance.

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